Yulia’s work integrates Ukrainian aesthetic heritage and academic research with the experiential, light-focused artistic approaches shaped by the California environment. Her vision is grounded in perceptual observation, yet it is equally shaped by the naïve poetic sensibility of Maria Prymachenko, the rhythmic patterning embedded in Ukrainian visual traditions, and the chromatic intelligence found in artists such as Sonia Delaunay and Mykola Pymonenko. For her, these cultural lineages offering the means of expressing the psychological, social, and political conditions that define contemporary Ukrainian experience. Yulia’s work weaves a continuous commentary shaped by her Eastern European identity, with compositions that often feature directional forces moving through doorways, windows, or descending staircases—gestures that evoke symbolic transitions between realms, visual motifs echo themes found in Ukrainian folk narratives.