This is a one-performer study exploring the use of voice by a violin player in a solo piece. The voice part uses different effects and noises in addition to the text by a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter and journalist Heorhii “Geo” Shkurupii (1903-1937) who belongs to the ’’Executed Renaissance’’ – an entire generation of Ukrainian artists that was physically removed by the Russian Soviet government in the 1930’s. Shkurupii was sent to the Solovki concentration camp and executed in 1937 at the age of 34. The violin part in this piece is not an accompaniment, it rather works in synthesis with the voice to create a certain persona, “portrait” of the author – Shkurupii’s poem used in the piece is called ’’Avtoportret’’ and is one of his most recognisable works, serving as a great example of the pan-futurist direction in Ukrainian Modernism.