Oleg Batukhtin follows the path of turning an image into a sign. At the heart of his works, which combine stone and wood, is a symbol that refers to the mythological and objective world of indigenous peoples. Batukhtin objects can be interpreted as modern savans, in which the artist, on the one hand, retains his individual style, on the other, transforms wooden sacred sculpture into a modern object. The visual optics of the old masters – representatives of indigenous peoples who saw the surrounding space through the prism of organic interaction with this space, Oleg Batukhtin translates into an actual plane, where the search for identity, original form, is at the forefront.