Instead of embracing current trends in art, Akasi chose a more rigorous path. She started studying Titian, Rembrandt, and Velasquez – artist who invested portraiture with a peculiarly expressive and revealing power. Then she spent a lot of time journeying around the mystically energetic sites in western Sayans, Pamir, Crimea, southern Siberia, Altay and the Carpathians. So maybe it is no surprise the dignity of the individual soul and the spiritual energy that radiates out from it seem to be main themes of her meditative work. Victoria Barchenko. Kyiv Post. Vol. 12, Issue 32
