"Books" is arguably the author’s most ambitious and labor-intensive project. The work on the project lasted over six months and included, in addition to creating physical ceramic objects, shooting and editing video to produce an accompanying film, which can be viewed on this same page.

"Books" originate from the project "Diary," which the author created in 2016 at the Fuping Pottery Art Village residency in China. The essence of the project was that the author posted a new diary page every day, made from textile soaked in slip. Local birds, attracted by grain, came to peck at the bait, leaving their marks on the pages. Each new page covered the previous one, forever hiding from the viewer the story of the past day.

The "Books" project was created four years later as part of the competitive program "M-17 Sculpture Price," organized by the M17 Center for Contemporary Ukrainian Art. It represents a large-scale realization of the same concept. Here, eight similar "diaries" are created simultaneously. Local birds, also attracted by grain, come to peck at the pages, leaving marks on them. The "Books" are placed close to each other, just like we are, but the birds, like events in our memory, leave completely different graphic patterns on the pages of each book. This demonstrates how, even standing close to each other, we perceive information individually and remain divided. Closed off from one another and unwilling to understand those nearby, we are doomed to constant conflict.