Ukraine 2022–?
On 24 February 2022, Putin’s army invaded Ukraine. This series emerged during the first year of the invasion.
During that time, a small story remained suspended within me: a woman who buried her son in her garden, hoping to lay him to rest according to the rites of the Orthodox Church once the war was over, believing that within a few months it would all be history. He was one of the war’s first victims, at a time when the population found itself alone with the invading army in the depths of winter.
Of him, his mother said only: he liked the colour blue.
That gesture — naming the colour he loved in the midst of devastation — became an image.
Here, blue appears as intimate memory and as a shared sky.
Red, as the mark of wounded earth.
“Земля йому пухом” (Rest in Peace)
50 × 70 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas
“My Son Is Barefoot”
50 × 70 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas
“Carrying a Child Under the Drone’s Crosshairs”
50 × 70 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas, collage
“Searching for Sergiy in Bucha”
50 × 70 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas, collage
“The Scream”
50 × 35 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas-covered MDF panel
“We're Leaving”
30 × 44 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas fabric
“Like a Beetroot in a Snowdrift I”
15 × 15 cm
Oil, encaustic, MDF panel
“Like a Beetroot in a Snowdrift II”
15 × 15 cm
Oil, encaustic, MDF panel
“Fire! Run!”
26 × 26 cm
Oil, encaustic, MDF panel
“Breastfeeding”
25 × 25 cm
Oil, encaustic, MDF panel
“Bienvenidos. La casa de Irina (en Bucha)”
45 cm x 51 cm
óleo, encaustica, collage, óxido, lona
“Saving Oneself”
48 × 70 cm
Oil, encaustic, canvas fabric
“Sunrise over the Dnipro”
30 × 30 cm
Oil, encaustic, MDF panel
“#хочужити” | “#IWantToLive”
24 × 34 cm
Polyester plate lithography, embroidery
“#хочужити” | “#IWantToLive”
24 × 34 cm
Polyester plate lithography, embroidery
“Ой у лузі червона калина” | “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow”
24 × 34 cm
Polyester plate lithography, coloured pencils, embroidery
“Ой у лузі червона калина” | “Oh, in the Meadow, the Red Kalyna”
23.5 × 31.5 cm
Polyester plate lithography, coloured pencils, canvas, embroidery
“The Farewell”
24 × 34 cm
Polyester plate lithography, embroidery
“Antonivka Is Burning” (2024)
16 × 24 cm
Collage, oil, encaustic
“Колись херсонщина була така” | “This Is What Kherson Region Was Once Like”
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 I Put This into Words?” (2023)
30 × 30 cm
Collage, oil, encaustic, MDF panel
There Are 25 of Us at Home
These tapestries, created during the Christmas holidays 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 colourful, the better. I took that love of colour 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.
Wall Tapestry 1
106 × 100 cm
Wall Tapestry 2
116 × 84 cm