The creativity of puppeteers, in contrast to the everyday worries of everyday life, is created without direct vital necessity.

Having a need to create a new and new doll and share some story about her, as a rule, it is not done with a calculation - the soul asks for it.

Works of art as a whole are created in order to touch a person's soul or set his spirit in motion. Create beauty from nothing…. Penetrate it yourself and share with others….

 Striving for beauty is a property of our soul. The soul lies outside psychology and reason. She really is a piece of eternity in our being.

In theology, in particular in Christianity, there is an explanation:

The soul is a manifestation of another world, the world of Eternal Life and bliss…. And her vocation, if possible, is to help a person get in touch with another world already here on earth ...

A wonderful property of our world: each person has his own measure and his own purpose ... There are people who were born to be creators and they always have a desire to share their world and experiences.

 I would like to introduce you to one of these creators:

Zemfira Dziova from Ossetia.

 She was born in the family of a famous, not only in Ossetia, artist Batraz Dziov. Since childhood, Zemfira was surrounded by books with good illustrations, books on art, the work of her father ... All this shaped her taste and vector of life direction.

 She graduated from the art school in Vladikavkaz, then the graphic arts department of the North Ossetian University named after Kosta Khetagurov with a degree in graphic painter.

 On my questions, Zemfira modestly told: “… I“ play ”with dolls as long as I can remember… My grandmother showed me how to make the first doll. It was a primitive doll made of two sticks, rags, and buttons from a coat instead of a head ...

I have been engaged in dolls since childhood and to this day ... "

And art education helps in this, and another strong side of her activity is book graphics!

For more than 25 years Zemfira has been working as an art editor for the children's literary and art magazine "Nogdzau", and also illustrates children's books for Ossetian publishing houses.

Conducts personal exhibitions and participates in various exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Russia, of which he is a member. We can say that her work is based on succession. And it is not by chance that I chose the creative path as a form of spiritual life!

 However, acquaintance with Zemfira and her work, give me reason to assert that the main message was, of course, the properties of her soul and her character.

The thirst for creative search made Zemfira absolutely independently, without teachers and master classes, master the entire technology of making dolls. (Hence the originality of her work!) Following a difficult path of trial and error, she achieved leadership in this type of creativity in the region. Her exhibitions delight and delight viewers in Pyatigorsk, Grozny and are well known and loved in Vladikavkaz.

 Now the leading place in Zemfira's work is the reconstruction of national life. In her latest works, she often in an ironic (on the verge of self-parody!) Key revives the grace and puppetry of national life. Zemfira creates a special lyrical type of characters with the decorativeism of the old Vladikavkaz wings. (These are the porches that you will see nowadays walking along the old streets of Vladikavkaz ...)

She implements her search for a style-forming principle with a priority on laconic symbolism. I would say that the poetics of her symbolism is broader - this is neo-romanticism!

And the depth of interpretation of her stage works and her creations is as unique as the cultural heritage of the Ossetians, and as she herself!

For 4 years Zemfira has been teaching a puppeteer school. This is the only school in the region!

 The harmonious form of creativity Zemfira Dzova brings light and good!

 Ahead of its multilateral activities is the desire to achieve new, previously unsettled goals, previously untested means. Good luck, Zemfira!

Olga Kudryavtseva