In 2025, Galina Bleikh and Lilia Chak realized the art project The Last Poet. From Alexander Altshuler’s sonnet “All is penetrable, my friend…” — translated into English and chosen by us as the magistral sonnet — artificial intelligence weaves a crown of fourteen sonnets, each embodying a different theory of the universe. Each part opens with a transformation: the theme of the sonnet becomes the avatar that voices the poem. Together they form a new digital “canvas of wholeness,” where divergent cosmological visions converge into a single meta-image. Here AI becomes the successor to the human poet, restoring and extending the poetic “Renaissance” integrity that modern consciousness has lost.
This deliberately provocative video installation proclaims the end of human and poetic totality, for in it we declare Alexander Altshuler (1938–2014) to be the last poet whose mind held syncretic unity — the ability to fuse into one harmonious vision the scientific, the mystical, the rational, and the profane. For Altshuler, the world was penetrable, fluid, bound by invisible connections. His idea that “all is penetrable” implies a worldview both integral and free of inner conflict. His magistral sonnet stands as the final testimony of human poetic consistency, when science, mysticism, and life could still resonate in unison.