I'm going home to eat mulberries from the tree

Artist Katia Lesiv’s artbook is based on sensual experience, exploring myth and the corporeality of the feminine. The body appears as a moving object of memory, returning to the sense of security and pleasure embodied in the ritual of consuming mulberries from a tree in childhood. Against the backdrop of the unpredictability and fragility of the world, the artist captures sensual experience as a soft but persistent manifestation of the intention to live and return.
“I’m Going Home to Eat Mulberries from a Tree” consists of a two-part series from 2023–2024 and a poetic essay by the author. The central images are analog photographs that balance on the border of instruction, incantation and poetry. The book turns to the triptych milky bloody muddy (milky, bloody, muddy), which symbolically reflects the taste of mulberries and the multifaceted language of motherhood, loss and the life cycle.