PHOSPHORUS
These are not illustrations, but existential cries.
Everyone experiences moments in which a rupture becomes visible in what once felt like a unified perception of the world. This project of 80 works exists at exactly this threshold, between the self and the will of the world. Between long forgotten ideas, a sense of experimental responsibility, personal history, and an overarching void.
Through deliberately reduced means and strict formal constraints, the attempt is made to approach something that resists linguistic definition. Fragments of analogue film photography, shards of language, philosophical concepts and abstract patterns come together as a fractured portrait, quietly breathing within the overwhelming turbulence of the world.
What cannot be spoken remains in silence. And it is precisely this silence that the static image begins to approach.
This visual book is an attempt to capture a state that cannot be translated into language. Emotions are compressed to such an extent that they lose their recognizable form. Not a narrative, not a process, but a point of pressure where everything turns into electric current. Image and humanity cease to function. What remains is an inner scream transformed into silence. The residue. The distilled sediment of human experience.
Created at the lowest point of a life, this book becomes a form of self therapy, an attempt to survive and translate personal pain into visual language. Each work follows the real chronology of that period, tracing the slow movement from collapse towards reconstruction. What begins as a silent dialogue with despair gradually becomes an act of healing.
Not only a document of inner rupture, but also a trace of self redemption through image.
Yehor Bread
Melville Brand Design, Yehor Bread
A4 + A5
176 pages
English
180g
First edition – 50 copies (2024), Second edition – 17 copies (2025)











