Oil on canvas, 175 cm х 150 cm, 2015

This is a reflection on my own situation … and my observation of everything that is happening from the outside. In 2014, in Ukraine, I felt like I wasn’t involved, that I was safe, but that I was somehow deep underwater and couldn’t breathe, and that life, like a boat, floated by on the surface. Here it looks like a bullet or a coffin… and it seems like you could swim up into the light; it is like a vision in a dream!

First published on May 2022