The face of Introspection
Nika Lynas (Veronika Pankova) is a digital artist and author from Russia whose visual narratives intertwine introspection and dark fantasy. In her work, she explores the inner states of the human psyche — psychological trauma and disorders, vulnerability, and isolation — through imagery that merges meta-symbolism, psychological realism, and digital distortion. Her practice includes digital painting, photo, and video performance.
In 2024, she created the project "The Face of Introspection" — a series of confessional works and performances addressing female subjectivity, emotional abuse, and healing.
Beyond visual art, she is the author of CRYolite, a book that combines autobiography, psychological thriller, and literary fiction. It examines self-isolation as a form of creative freedom and portrays the creative journey and the harsh, often solitary reality of artists who struggle for years to find their place in the industry.
Her works have been exhibited in Mumbai, New York, Montreal, Larnaca, Limassol, and Moscow, and featured in a Romanian anthology of contemporary digital art and the international magazine Visual Art Journal. She lives and works between inner space and digital worlds.
She presents a selection of works from her large-scale series, The Face of Introspection. It is a reconstruction of memory and an exploration of psychological trauma that does not fade with time. Instead of direct storytelling, she gives unspoken emotions—fear, anger, passion—an ephemeral and enigmatic form, preventing the viewer from drawing quick conclusions. Her goal is not only to depict pain but to make it tangible, revealing its fragile beauty.
It is an act of humanizing inner chaos: transforming personal vulnerability into myth, and darkness into structure. Each work becomes an observation of how a vague feeling crystallizes into an image. To achieve this, the artist employs digital distortions, cold light, textures, and detail to emphasize the distance between genuine experience and its visual manifestation. At times, she transcends the digital walls and concludes her philosophical statements with physical performances, creating eternal and complex artifacts that then live on with those who were her muses.
Her practice is about creating evidence of human fragility exploring the boundary between pain and beauty, and reminding us of the necessity to look into the darkness in order to see the light.
Monologues | Portfolio
Just Symbolic
Metasymbolism of Emotional Sublimation - a calculated gesture of distance. A digital response to "Satura's" intensity, this work captures...
Satura
This work visualizes a state of ecstatic asphyxiation - the paradox of freedom so intense it becomes a new form of captivity. The figure's...
элина — i`m so sorry
«Elina» is an autonomous art project by Nika Lynas, which grew out of the image of the heroine of the book "CRYolite" and turned into an...
At in Arcadia Ego
«At in Arcadia ego» reinterprets the classical memento mori. The work depicts a figure in transition between dissolved and forming...
The Failure to Bloom
You can’t win them all. You can’t even win yourself. triptych: «Corpus Umbrae» 2025
Lagxna
«Lagxna» artbook ver.
Loom
— I did not grow here. I was woven here.
Journey to Voidom
Audhum / Moderator Blade of God X: Orisols (Fanart)
Architectus illusionis
«Architectus illusionis» explores the paralysis of a mind trapped in a web of its own creation. The marble figure, shrouded in a veil of...
Form
— I exist, therefore I blur.
Cruciform
— God won't answer anyway.
Requiescat in pace
— Marble is eternity’s tears… and angels guard these tears like love’s final prayer.
The Lily Vessel
The woman blooms inward, as pollen in the flower’s core. No name, no vow, only quiet .
Exhale
— «You do what you want with me, till I am spent, I'm so content»
Cogito ergo sum
— «I introspect, therefore, I exist»
A Sterile Relationship
— «Come on, wrap me in a cold embrace once more and look at me with a glassy, empty gaze. Give me white lilies and make sure I'm familiar...
Howl
Exhaustion
— «Feed my/yourself»
Find Eurydice
— «How long had he been looking for this nymph in the woods?»
Fantasia
— Inspired by Grimes at the Coachella
Liberte
Inspired by Grimes — «You need the dark, to see the light»
Iridescent wing
— «Ethereal, obsidian, nimble, free me from ascetic illusions»
Ennui
— «Chews and spits me out every fucking day»
Forgiven from Above
— «Come now, and let us reason together, Says the Lord, Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are...
Who are u now
The Synthesis of Origins
In the Kingdom of Shadows, where light was a scarce guest, a porcelain princess wandered. Her armor sang with a quiet, melodic chime, like...
Glance
— «...but I can be embarrassed»
Runner ver. 2
— People are a set of data. Adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. Four symbols, of which the human alphabet consists.
Code Wing
— «Just because people don't have wings, they are looking for ways to fly»