The Visit to the Museum

Book project for Vladimir Nabokov’s short story "The Visit to the Museum”. The story is centred on the anonymous protagonist's quest to find a friend's family painting in a small town's dusty museum. As the protagonist finds himself immersed in this quest, strange and unsettling things begin to happen around him. In this kaleidoscopic vertigo, he finds more about himself than he would like to.

The challenge with this series was the transfer of vector synthetic drawings into the material world, mixing laser cutters with paint. The balance between the digital polished compositions and the analog texture and pigment vibrance was what I was after. Using laser paper cuts helped me to play around more intuitively. Having multiple identical paper forms allowed me to move things around like I was solving a puzzle.  

Illustrations and book design laser cut paper, presentation board, printing inks and color pencils. Book Cover type laser engraved, Cover Illustration laser cut and assembled presentation board.

Project done at the School of Visual Arts under Viktor Koen’s guidance. Produced at Visual Futures Lab, SVA.

Gold Award Graphis New Talents 2026.

A black book with cut-out shapes of various objects and body parts on its cover, with the title 'the VISIT to the MUSEUM' and author's name Vladimir Nabokov, lie on a pink background.
Close-up of a black greeting card with layered cut-out letters and a small illustration of a person.
Open magazine displaying a collage of geometric shapes forming a businesswoman carrying a briefcase, surrounded by colorful abstract columns and shapes.
Open book with colorful stickers including a face outline, musical instruments, and a person silhouette, on a pink surface.
Open book with colorful guitar-shaped stickers on its pages, placed on a pink background.
An open magazine showing an illustration of a black robotic hand making the peace sign, with some scattered paper clips around it, placed on a bright pink surface.
Open book showing detailed, rose gold-colored, ornamental designs and patterns on a pink background.
Gray book titled 'the VISIT to the MUSEUM' with embossed silhouettes of museum-related objects, placed on pink, gray, and orange backgrounds.
A sheet of die cuts with intricate curved patterns and designs, laid out on a flat surface.
Colorful geometric shapes arranged on a white background, resembling an abstract still life or modern art composition.
Colorful abstract art of a businesswoman holding a briefcase, standing next to a tall, striped pillar with geometric shapes on top.
Colorful collage art of a pink figure with a crown holding a bottle, sitting at a table with black pants and pink heels.
Colorful geometric shapes arranged on a white background, resembling an abstract art piece.
Colorful abstract art featuring two stylized birds on tall stands and a person's silhouette in black at the bottom center.
Colorful neon signs featuring various household and miscellaneous objects, including a jar, toothbrush, cactus, snowman, woman silhouette, potted plant, lamp, jewelry, and hand.
Colored cut-out figure of a person with pink and orange hair, wearing black shoes, surrounded by white curly paper cut-outs, on a white background.
Mixed media art piece depicting a woman with long black hair, a pink and yellow face, wearing black shoes, on a white background with cut-out shapes and a pink circle.
Colorful spiral art with black base, featuring multiple concentric circles in pink, blue, orange, yellow, and purple, arranged in a layered pattern on a white background.
A decorative sheet with colorful butterfly cutouts in various sizes and colors, including pink, orange, gold, black, and teal.
A collection of colorful guitar-shaped paper clips and round paper clips scattered on a white surface with some overlapping and random arrangement.
White decorative cutouts of various shapes scattered on a light background, with patterned borders of cutouts along the top and bottom edges.

The Cast

The New York Review of Books