Born in Siberia amongst bears, Mila Filatova was able to witness firsthand the mating rituals of wild animals. She observed how little we know about the private lives of bears and why they are so secretive.
The idea for Bears Behaving Bad came to her during the first month of the pandemic when she was meditating on a bench in Battery Park. Suddenly (and definitely unrelated to her lack of sex life) the image of cute bears having sex popped into her head. She got an urge to run home and sketch, picking up a paintbrush for the first time in her life (please be impressed).
She has tried to paint foxes and bunnies, but found their secret sex life not so secret and not so sexy, so she decided to go back to her roots: bears.
