This artwork explores humanity’s creative impulse and the haunting thought that draws us toward art. Tethys noticed that the ammonites’ marks left behind resembled drawings, and by following that same impulse and logic, he imprinted his own body into chalk dust, creating a “Chalk Body Sketch".

Seeking only solace, he unknowingly saved his kind from extinction (literally creating a new form of life that could exist under new world rules), acting as if driven by instinct or by a pattern ingrained over millennia.

Unlike a bird that builds its nest, humans were never guided toward art by instinct. Yet throughout history, we have always turned to it in moments of hardship.
Tethys, the last human, reached the ultimate expression of this connection.

Embedded within the piece is a fin, perhaps from a whale, perhaps a siren — a symbol of his enduring bond with the sea and the end of his blind survival on the shore of a dead ocean.

Tethys pressed his own form into the chalk, shaping a sketch of a lost species which must be adapted to life on ocean’s bones.

Though never an artist nor sculptor, his instincts, fears, and hopes compelled him to create a “body” of chalk, clay, tar, and remnants of animal flesh.
The Chalk Body became both a relic and confession.

This form was never chosen by nature herself, but Tethys chose it for her. Chalk body is a salvation and burden for such mind as “she” has

Artworks on walls also by Tethys

Chalk Body became a non-evolutionary being, one that combines the genetic code of every creature that now exists in the world.
She is a scan of all nature, locked into a female form that reflects the shape and essence of Homo sapiens.

He will never be able to explain why exactly he created an "idol" somewhere in the depths of the dead ocean’s bones, but by a stroke of luck and the new rules of the biosphere, it worked; in a way that was completely unexpected to him.

In this world shaped by ruin, his creative force is both a survival instinct and a ritual — a final dialogue between man and the wild unknown
His name also a reference to ancient culture, art as a thing which upcoming from nature makes circles through epochs
It’s a rough sketch, but enough to show

He will live as long as his body endures and the environment allows — as long as his art moves in one way with the voices from the chalk mountains that locked up the cataclysm.

Tethys survived after biocatastrophe and became the last human being of the New Stone Age. His true age and original name are long lost — rendered meaningless in a world where nature no longer follows human rules.

In my wildest dreams, this could become a game or a film. But for now, I’m focused on bringing it to life through art.
I’ll be sharing sketches, illustrations, and visual notes — along with story fragments and insights into the characters’ lives.

Thanks for watching — more coming soon!

Each piece is rooted in my personal experience and shaped by observations of real-life nature, evolution, and own experience as artist.
This is my way of creating a myth — a response to the time I live in and the nature I witness.