Woman with platinum blonde hair and light skin standing on a city street at night, wearing a cow print coat over a mesh top and leather skirt, with a illuminated sign reading 'NORTH PARK' in the background.

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 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 nineteen, 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.