Original artwork description:

Dear clients and colleagues,
there is a war in my country Ukraine and I am on the territory of Ukraine (Kyiv). Thank God everything is fine with me and my family and I continue to painted pictures. Today it is calm in Kyiv and in most Western cities.
I would like to tell you about war. My city was bombed during one month and one week, we know what it's like to hide in basements and what a blast wave is. Near my house there are destroyed houses.

To date, eastern city Mariupol has suffered greatly. Kharkov is being bombed at the moment. There are also many small towns of Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel, Moshchun, Borodyanka, etc. who have suffered. Kherson and Donetsk are under occupation.

The picture is called "We are not OK". It is an answer to the question "Are you okay? "
I have not yet met a single person who has not suffered from the hostilities of Russia here. Someone suffered very physically, someone lost their loved ones, someone is safe, but lost their job, someone was forced to leave their home, most men cannot leave the country, most women were forced to leave saving the lives of children. Families are torn apart.
Our forests are mined, our gardens outside the city are ruined, many people have left their homes.
The painting shows 100 windows and an entrance door. The war entered the "door" on February 24 at 4.30 am till now.

100 windows of real owners from different cities of Ukraine in one picture. A picture of different destinies.
Some of the windows are already broken. Some of the windows are broken so that even the walls are gone. At that time Someone turns on the light in the evening, which is strictly forbidden when they are bombed by aircraft. This endangers the entire house.
Almost all windows are sealed with tape and this makes an amazing ornament on the houses. Scotch won't help hold the glass if there's an explosion, but it will help keep it from being shattered into small pieces by the blast.
The picture shows two cats. One at the top of the window, he asks to get out. Unfortunately, some people ran away from fear and closed their pets at home not thinking that it will drag on for a long period and pets could not get out anymore. We even have volunteers organized a service to save such animals.
The second cat sat on the seventh floor in the ruins of his house for about a month. There was a whole operation of evacuation him and he became famous.
We have a well-known story about a kitchen set, after the explosion the front wall and floor flew away, but the kitchen cabinets with plates and a cockerel remained on one wall. Such cockerel was given as a souvenir to Boris Johnson when he visited Kyiv. After these cases with the cockerel and the cat, when asked if you "are you ok?" it is customary to answer, "We're holding on!". This means that we hold on despite everything that happens, we hold on.
When people lived under occupation, they were forced to hang large inscriptions on white sheets on house the word ДЕТИ or ЛЮДИ translate is KIDS and PEOPLE so that the Russian military would understand that it was impossible to shoot that house. But unfortunately, this did not always help to save lives.
People who live on the first or zero floors blocked the windows with sandbags.
In the lower right corner on the house on orange window there is a mark, at the beginning of the war, saboteurs made such marks with luminous paint on houses, on the road, supposedly for aviation, where to drop the bomb.
Those who remained in Ukraine are in no hurry to remove tape or remove sandbags the windows, as the threat is over us every day..

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Materials used:

oil on canvas

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