✨ The Girl Who Turned Broken Glass Into Holograms ✨

They told me I can’t do it, that a girl from a falling apart Soviet apartment block, who has only tasted stale bread and her mother’s tears, can never design dreams for diamonds. But here I am – Sofiya Ivanova, the Holographic Witch, bending light as I bent fate. 💫

My story starts with a father who disappeared like a bad signal and a mother who worked three jobs to keep the lights on. At 14, I stole a broken VR headset from a dumpster, fixed it with duct tape and rage, and taught myself how to code whilst stealing hrs of Starbucks wifi. 💻🔥

Then came the Dark Winter – being homeless, squatting in an abandoned factory in Moscow, warming my hands on burning circuit boards, and designing holographic butterflies that brewed from my cracked phone screen. The rich kids at design school told me to take off my thrift store coat...until my thesis project - a holographic requiem for my mother’s dying roses - made the dean sob. 🌹⚡

Now? I sculpt light into stories for luxury brands and underground galleries. My hands still have solder burns, but my installations gross more than a childhood apartment block. Every flickering pixel I conjure is a middle finger to the darkness that threatened to demolish me.

Fun fact: I still keep that broken VR headset on my desk. It whispers, "You were always meant to glow." ✨🖤