At the "Shishim Hill" residence, Alexander Bazhenov was exploring work with a new material - marble. Thanks to partnership with the "Uralsky Marble" enterprise, the artist could choose his material right in the quarry, already having a clear image of the future sculpture in mind. The stone was processed by hand using classical tools: in March, raspers, bouchards, dowels, chisels, jedding axes, drills and pins appeared at the residence.

Alexander worked being surrounded by some of his earlier works. These were the posters printed for the main project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale (2017) on the walls, and a fresh painting "Future" hung on the front wall. An immense canvas (2x4 meters) shows the word Future, Tim Radya, who sets it on fire (a reference to the artist's project in 2020), Alexander Bazhenov himself at his easel, depicting this process, and again Alexander Bazhenov in a twisted pose reflecting his thoughts and feelings during this event. Cow parsnip makes up the texture of landscape. Cow parsnip as a new symbol of death (in) Russia emerges in Alexander's recent works quite often. By its contagious spread, it migrated from pictorial medium into sculpture. Two marble cow parsnips that sprouted in the central hall of the residence became Alexander's residential project.