Harvard scholar and Professor of Art History at the Australian National University in Canberra, Sasha Grishin, has said of her work, "Light, which permeates all matter, is allowed to irradiate her forms, sometimes dissolving the flesh to leave only patterns and contours.
She made illustrations for the popular science magazine Znanie-Sila, for (in Italian) Jurij Nolev-Sobolev and poets Viktor Bokov and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
As a child she developed a passion for sculpture, particularly carving in wood, and, at 14 years of age, was taught by the sculptor Sergei Konenkov.
In 1974 her school teacher and friend, Vitaly Komar, invited her to participate in what was to become the notorious Bulldozer Exhibition, held on September 15 of that year at the Belyayevo urban forest in Moscow.
The non-conformist art exhibition was crushed by police and plainclothes security officials, using bulldozers, water canons and dump trucks.