Arborama, Desperanzza, Bedazedly Experiencing How to Fly, Saturnus eateth mortals not
I've been watching Oleg work from a distance for years. I've always been impressed with how he takes the nuts and bolts of actionscripting (a hugely left-brain activity) and combines them with his bizarro illustrations to create web works which are exceedingly gritty and visceral. The consistent tone in his work emerges from the damnably erratic shifts in his on-screen presentations, his art-director impulse to work with other image makers and his own blackened worldview.

I always showed people Desperanzza first, and I've come to loath telletubbies (which I can imagine he does, too, when I look at Saturnus), but after Michael suggested that we add Arborama to the selection I've started to think that this is the definitive Oleg Paschenko piece. It's devoid of the gaunt, Munch-like figures that haunt much of his other work, but it issues a quiet invitation to interact in a cold, barren world that we don't actually navigate, but rather stumble around in. Like so much else in life.