Secret garden is a composition that is based on a homonymous pencil drawing by the young Armenian artist Arshak Sarkissian. I have been interested in Arshak’s pencil drawings for a while now since attending his solo exhibition at the Pharos Arts Foundation in Nicosia. Apart from the technical realization, I was also interested in the thematic approach. Animal sounds play an important role in my works and animals play a big role in many of Arshak’s drawings. Human and animal hybrids appear often...