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Artist’’s Journal is a collection of the various artworks and musings of Sveta Alenina. This compilation of works ranges from Sveta’’s simple sketches to her short bursts of poetry. Consisting mostly of her various illustrations, this book is exactly what the title describes - the journal of an artist. If artworks could talk - this is how they would do it.Sveta’’s art is intriguing. The variety of forms and colour that she incorporates into the various illustrations is immense. There are no two works alike, and none of them gave me the feeling of repetitiveness. In the Amazon blurb, Sveta states that the images are more doodles than artworks. I have to disagree on this notion. Doodling implies that the illustration is like a stream of consciousness. I feel like this art is deliberate. There are intense feelings associated with the images portrayed, and, every so often, the illustrations come with epigrams to back them up. I don’’t think that doodles can invoke emotional sensations. This art does. By Bianka Walter. Sveta’’s art is a state of consciousness as much as it is paper, pencils, and paint. How one can define this phenomenon?I considered myself fit to write about her art as I studied art all my life. First, as an artist, through countless art studios and five years of an art college, then as an art historian, as a philosopher of art, and then as a Jungian psychologist and philosopher. And now, looking at her addictive, colorful pages, I am at total loss. I am in awe. It is deeper than day can comprehend,â? to borrow Nietzsche’’s expression, and layered with meaning one usually does not expect to find in art. First of all, Sveta’’s art is aesthetically beautiful. The composition, the flow and interaction of forms, the visual balance of the color are true. Her sense of when enough is enough is superb. Artist’’s Journal is a collection of the various artworks and musings of Sveta Alenina. By Olena Provencer.