Don’t get caught hare emerged from an obsession with movement: with running away or towards, with being chased — even when no one is there. It lives where tenderness and fear coexist, where melancholy shades the present and nostalgia sets with a quiet uneasiness — a place you return to without choosing, where childhood and consciousness finally meet.

I work through images, words and small gestures. I am drawn to what happens quietly, to what is overlooked, to what is forgotten, and to what continues to exist there anyway.

You can keep running,

but the pain will reach you anyway.

This project lingers in that moment: the breath before impact, the afterimage, the ache that refuses to be neatly understood. There is a quiet violence in the need to be understood, and a different kind of freedom in accepting that some things cannot be explained away.

Don’t get caught hare is a project by Irina — not as a name to claim, but as a way of staying.