Original artwork description:

This work speaks to absence — of care, of truth, of nourishment. The burned, stained papers carry a simple but heavy message: “They left us flags, not food.”
It’s about systems that offer symbols instead of solutions. The layered textures, raw marks, and handwritten words resist silence.
It’s a quiet kind of protest. A refusal to disappear.

Materials used:

acrylic,oil,watercolor,pastel, and paper on soviet-era cotton fabric

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#text based #large abstract #brown abstract #mixed meda #figurative abstraction #contemporary surrealism #political abstract #symbalism #post-socialist art #ultra contemporary 

They Left Us Flags (2025) Mixed-media painting
by Gela MIKAVA

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This work speaks to absence — of care, of truth, of nourishment. The burned, stained papers carry a simple but heavy message: “They left us flags, not food.”
It’s about systems that offer symbols instead of solutions. The layered textures, raw marks, and handwritten words resist silence.
It’s a quiet kind of protest. A refusal to disappear.

Materials used:

acrylic,oil,watercolor,pastel, and paper on soviet-era cotton fabric

Tags:
#text based #large abstract #brown abstract #mixed meda #figurative abstraction #contemporary surrealism #political abstract #symbalism #post-socialist art #ultra contemporary 
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Gela Mikava (b. 1995, Zugdidi, Georgia) Lives and works in TbilisiGela Mikava is a Georgian visual artist whose practice centers on inherited trauma, material memory, and the long afterlife of collapsed... Read more

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