The themes of repetition, reflection, symmetry, and kaleidoscopes have always fascinated me. I loved looking through kaleidoscopes as a child, and that fascination has never really disappeared.

In nature and in life, perfect copies hardly ever exist: even the most symmetrical forms differ slightly from one another. Perhaps that is exactly why I became so absorbed in the opposite idea at the time—the attempt to create an artificial world of perfect repetitions.

I experimented with mirror reflections, rotations, rhythm, and ornament, transforming individual drawings into complex symmetrical structures. An image was no longer simply a scene or a story, but became a system in which a single element could be repeated again and again, each time creating something new.

Looking back, I see this calendar as an important experiment with the structure of an image. It taught me to think not only in terms of individual objects and stories, but also about rhythm, scale, and the organization of the entire page.