In 2023, as part of the Orpheus in Hades project, the artist's second book, entitled The Forest, was published. The Forest, like the previous book The Garden, which became the author's first literary experience, is neither memoir nor fiction, but rather resembles an ancient oriental treatise on art written by the author with an idea of a world in which witty interpretations of ancient myths coexist with lyrical arguments about the nature of matter. The Forest includes 60 new graphic works, which are not just illustrations, but an integral part of the project. The artist talks about time periods, epochs and eons — the periods that can mark his evolution are not counted in years. Pushnitsky's metaphors are lengthy and multi-layered, it is not worth reading them contextually. For Pushnitsky, it is important that the author is in complete unity with his works, in fact, the works of the new project are certificates for subscribing the artist's way of thinking for the period. And these thoughts lie in the field of art theory more than in the field of manifesto. So the abstract form for Pushnitsky is an inseparable case of reality. The more concrete the image, the more reality eludes. But the plastic language is not enough for Vitaly, he turns to the text. This is actually a one-man show: the author states the thesis that it is impossible to fix neither oneself, nor time, nor space.
