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This story was written in Russian as an advertisement for the set of greeting cards, presented to the ecological competition because they were hand made using dried flowers and herbs.

I believe that within each of us there are multiple personalities that dominate in different circumstances and at different periods of life. I also have within me many such personalities. Here I will introduce you to two of them: Vita - the Engineer and Vita - the Artist. I see myself as a collective character—Viktorina Yuryevna, who coordinates and evaluates the behavior of her inner selves.

Both of them have always lived in me. One loved to think, the other was sentimental, loved art and craft. At the age of 17, they broke up for a while. The first, the Engineer, graduated from the Polytechnic University and made a successful engineering career. Work fed her, developed her brain, gave her many friends and a good husband. The second, the Artist, seemed to disappear for a while, and many did not even suspect of her existence. For the sake of fairness, it must be said that it was she who could easily make a candy from nothing. It was believed that this was due to poverty.

As people age, they become sentimental, and around age fifty, the artist began gradually displacing the engineer, unexpectedly earning a degree in art shortly before retiring. However, she would have remained on the sidelines, as by then Viktorina Yuryevna was financially secure.

Then came Perestroika, which sidelined the Engineer, depriving her of her job. She effectively retreated into the shadows, urgently mobilizing the Artist, who could work only with her eyes and hands and, as she liked to say, with her soul and heart. Moreover, by her own words, with her brain completely swiched off.

Since then, the Engineer is having a hard time. Having imagined a lot about herself, the Artist cannot start anything by herself. So, the Engineer needs to be an ideologist and pusher, staying in the shadows and giving this fool a start in life. Created by them collection of handmade greeting cards is called Viktorina Cards.

Viktorina has fulfilled every designer's dream by creating a new, her own style: three-dimensional thematic collages glued to a shiny, "silk-like" backgrounds.

This essay contains photographs of greeting cards with collages composed of environmental materials: dried flowers and their petals, leaves, bark and dried herbs. The photographs are arranged by themes:

New Zealand

Landscapes

Compositions

It was difficult to limit them: a lot were created.

These photos do not need a description.

Exclusive cards

Two cards shown are just a small part of the orders made for the Russian famous singer Nikolai Baskov on the days of his significant events. According to reports, our cards were recognized among thousands of others received by Nikolai Baskov.

Angel Day:

The romantic central composition (a collage of dried flowers, rose petals and leaves) is mounted in a frame and placed on a card. Blue silk decoration of the front part (water and the upper frame), as well as the inside with poetic congratulations, make the card exquisitely elegant.

Birthday:

A collage with nested miniature photographs depicts Nikolai Baskov and his wife Svetlana in Russian costumes in a carriage with three horses.

Thanks for your attention.

Viktorina Yurievna Savelieva, engineer.

Viktorina Savelieva, Viktorina Cards designer.