Ukraine 2022–?
On February 24, 2022, Putin’s army invaded Ukraine. This series began during the first year of the invasion.
At that time, a small story remained suspended within me: a woman buried her son in her garden, hoping that when the war ended she would be able to bid him farewell according to the rites of the Orthodox Church. She believed that within a few months it would all be over and become part of history. He was one of the first victims of the war, when, in the depths of winter, the civilian population was still left alone to face the invading army.
His mother said only this about him: he liked the color blue.
That gesture—naming a beloved color amid the devastation—became an image.
Blue appears here as intimate memory and as a shared sky.
Red, as the mark of a wounded land.
“Земля йому пухом” (“Rest in Peace”)
50 × 70 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas
“My Son Is Barefoot”
50 × 70 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas
“Gestating Under the Drone’s Crosshairs”
50 × 70 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas, collage
“Searching for Serhiy in Bucha”
50 × 70 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas, collage
“The Scream”
50 × 35 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas-covered MDF
“We Are Leaving”
30 × 44 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas
“Like a Beetroot in a Snowdrift I”
15 × 15 cm
oil, encaustic, MDF
“Like a Beetroot in a Snowdrift II”
15 × 15 cm
oil, encaustic, MDF
“Fire! Let’s Run!”
26 × 26 cm
oil, encaustic, MDF
“Breastfeeding”
25 × 25 cm
oil, encaustic, MDF
“Welcome. Irina’s House (in Bucha)”
45 × 51 cm
oil, encaustic, collage, rust, canvas
“Saving Oneself”
48 × 70 cm
oil, encaustic, canvas
“Dawn over the Dnipro”
30 × 30 cm
oil, encaustic, MDF
“#хочужити” | “#IWantToLive”
24 × 34 cm
lithography on polyester, embroidery
“Ласкаво просимо” | “Welcome”
24 × 34 cm
lithography on polyester, pencils, embroidery
“Ой у лузі червона калина” | “Oh, the Red Kalyna in the Meadow”
24 × 34 cm
lithography on polyester, pencils, embroidery
“Ой у лузі червона калина” | “Oh, the Red Kalyna in the Meadow”
23.5 × 31.5 cm
lithography on polyester, pencils, canvas, embroidery
“The Farewell”
24 × 34 cm
lithography on polyester, embroidery
“Antonivka Is Burning” (2024)
16 × 24 cm
collage, oil, encaustic
“Колись Херсонщина була така” | “Once, Kherson Region Was Like This”
70 × 120 cm
acrylic, oil pastels, canvas
“За вашу та нашу свободу” (“For Your Freedom and Ours”) (2024)
70 × 100 cm
acrylic, oil, canvas
private collection
“How Can This Be Put into Words?” (2023)
30 × 30 cm
collage, oil, encaustic, MDF
“There Are 25 of Us in My House”
These tapestries, created during the Christmas season of 2025, represent Ukraine’s 25 regions, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, its rivers, and the Black Sea, as a gesture of unity and remembrance.
Traditionally, the walls of Ukrainian homes are decorated with tapestries: the more colorful, the better. I took this love of color to its fullest expression. A textile act of presence, resistance, and belonging.
Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
