Andrei Sagaidakovsky defines his process of painting with the word “soil”. This method he was partially prompted by the medium, that he is still working with – the carpets. Using old canvases, torn fabrics for his work, the carpet in the end became for him the foundation for the embodiment of his artistic ideas. In the late 1980s, when Sagaidakovsky began his work, there was a crisis with work materials and he did not have access to artistic materials since he was not a member of the Union of Artists. Additionally, the economic crisis of the 1990s also made the artist to search for the alternative materials – they happened to be the carpets, which became a recognizable feature of his works. The scenes of Sagaidakovsky’s paintings are mainly described by art historians as “the truth of life.”