Interview with Natasha Sidorova (Koza / Hookah Custom Studio) /// A custom bowl for the most interesting question!

Good day everyone, friends! Today we are going to meet charming Natasha – hookah artist 🎨

She is engaged in customizing bowls, flasks, wooden overlays for hookah shafts.

“My task is to make your hookah unique and make your desires come true” ©

TG: https://t.me/kozacustom

– Tell us how you got acquainted with the hookah industry? What prompted you to continue developing in this sphere?

My parents introduced me to hookah. I was about 13 years old, and they brought hookah from Egypt, then it seemed that hookah is absolutely harmless and it’s just a toy, so they let me smoke. This entertainment they quickly abandoned, and again to hookah I was brought by a friend. It seemed to me that to let the clubs of tasty smoke is cool, and I quickly became addicted to hookah. With time I started to dive deeper into it, just because I was fascinated, I started to study something myself, to get acquainted with the market and everything. Eventually, I got so deep that I went to work in this field).

– When did you become attracted to fine art?

I’ve been drawing since I was a little girl. Even as a child I had a dream of becoming a fashion designer, I watched fashion shows and drew my outfits. So I grew up with the realization that sooner or later I would realize myself as an artist

– How was “Koza” created? What difficulties did it face from the very beginning?

Not many people know, but Koza was created by painting flasks. I just at some point realized that I wanted a special, YOUR flask, and there was no choice on the market, so that’s how the idea of painting flasks came. Then I painted a bowl for fun, Thor noticed it and wrote to me, that’s how the collaboration started, and they gave me a very good start, for which I am very grateful to the guys.

The difficulties are still the same – it’s hard for me to get into the audience, I don’t read consumer demand well, so I continue to work on individual orders. And right now there is a difficulty in finding a specific paint for the flask)

– Is customizing a hobby for you or your main way of making money?

It’s my life)

– Tell us where and how do you get inspiration for your work?

Pinterest 😀

But seriously, my main inspiration is people, my environment, my customers, the whole world around me. I am fascinated by the little things that many people just don’t pay attention to. For example, I can get stuck on a puddle)

– Have you ever had the desire to start from scratch? To try your hand at something else?

I have bipolar disorder, so I’m thrown into the confidence that I’m unique and this market needs me, and then into the feeling that I’m nothing, and at such moments I think of giving up, but Koza is too precious to me

– Do you work alone or in a team? Do you plan to expand the KOZA in any way?

I work in a team with my customer) I don’t plan to expand, at least not yet.

– What do you depict best of all?

I do best with black and white portraits, but everything is not so difficult, except calligraphy.

– Tell me about the most provocative customization you’ve ever done.

Ugh, there was a request for something religious, but I can’t even remember anything like that. It’s even become interesting to come across something like this)

– Should an artist be hungry?

No one should be hungry) It’s all nonsense, just like the stereotype that all creative people are fucked up…. said the man with bipolar 😀

Anyway, I’m eating.

– What or who is the biggest pride in your life?

My grandma and my cousin. Grandma is just an incredible woman that I try to look up to, and my brother is an awesome accordion player and one of the kindest people around me

– Tell us about your perfect day.

My perfect day is a day that has a lot of work, but has time to cook something delicious and go outside. I hate days with nothing to do, it ruins me

Thank you so much Natasha for such detailed answers, and right below this post, on our Hookah Hub, we are offering our community members a Q\A session – ask any question to a brand representative in the comments.

10 days after posting, Natasha will answer and choose the author with the most interesting question and send a gift:

A customizable bowl

What a beauty!