Hi, I'm Alina, a Ukrainian immigrant and the one-woman nightmare behind Rotten Cuties Studio !

I hand-sculpt awkward monsters, unsettling trinkets, cursed jewelry, and other things that refuse neat categories. Every piece is one of a kind, made slowly, obsessively, and with an embarrassing amount of feeling.

They’re strange little beings that still want to be loved.
Precious oddlings. Cuties with a rot somewhere inside. Or sweetness that’s hiding where rot should be. Basically human.

I started sculpting in 2015 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina mostly to keep my restless hands busy and my depressed brain distracted.
I had just moved to the U.S. from Ukraine at 19 y.o…. confused, homesick, and trying very hard to hold myself together.
Making strange little creatures helped. More than I expected.
Now my shelves are full of resin guts, furry freaks, and clay hybrids that look like they crawled out of a dream. Or a nightmare. Hard to say.

This is what happens when you stop trying to be normal and let yourself make what feels honest!

My work lives somewhere between art and a bad decision. It’s made with attitude, texture, and just enough life to feel wrong.

Rotten Cuties aren’t here to be polite. They’re here to be taken home.