# Project Description

Shkura

Mariia Kozlitina

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I am a concept-driven designer and visual storyteller based in London. Working across analogue and digital formats, my practice explores memory, identity, and cultural dissonance through experimental image-making, tactile processes, and narrative construction.

With a background in graphic design and communication, my work combines photography and work with analogue formats. My visual language blends subcultural aesthetics, gothic codes, and personal archives.

Fluent in English and Russian, I draw on a dual perspective to build emotionally charged, detail-driven worlds across film, design, and print.

I am a concept-driven designer and visual storyteller based in London. Working across analogue an...

College Chelsea College of Arts

Course BA (Hons) Graphic Design Communication

Graduation year 2025

Shkura is an experimental poetry book made in collaboration with writer Maria Safarova. It explores the contradictions of cultural identity and change through material metaphor: skin.

Each poem, written in dedication to our shared Eastern heritage, is printed onto hand-poured latex pages, echoing the sensation of skin—fragile, mutable, and marked. The latex surface is adorned with tattoo-style illustrations of cultural motifs, turning the book into a tactile record of memory and transformation.

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Shkura is an experimental poetry book made in collaboration with writer Maria Safarova. It explores the contradictions of cultural identity and change through material metaphor: skin.Each poem, written in dedication to our shared Eastern heritage, is printed onto hand-p...

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