After my grandparents both died during a year I came back to my home city to document what was left. This resulted in the series of still lives shot in their flat. Each object occupies the same space as it used to many years ago, revealing some individual habits of my grandparents. Grandma used to keep her bijou in the blue crystal bowl. Grandpa was fond of fishing and used to make fishing nets himself. He kept his gear for weaving nets on the chair by the window and on the windowsill. The chair has always been covered with the green ornamented mat. However, the series reflects not only my personal experience, but also cultural, aesthetic, and everyday patterns still existing in the post-soviet countries. Carpets, cupboards where families kept not only crystal tableware but also photos, postcards and documents, standard wallpapers, curtains and utensils, caskets for collected buttons – the post war habit of elderly women, famous paintings replicas and plenty of tapestry. These objects were also signs of well-being of a soviet family. Now, having lost their functionality, all these things serve rather as triggers, provoking familiar feelings in everyone who has grown in similar environment. This conventional, uniform, instantly recognizable ambience of a soviet flat has turned into a symbol of the era and represents the collective memory of former soviet nations. The series is an attempt to revise my past, a way to accept it and move further. *(Memories and Traditions category)