Ukraine In Flames

Dedicated to Ukraine's Independence

"It all was mired so thick in human flesh, tears, blood, screaming, howling, curses and loss that nothing surprised no one anymore. This was a new world, a new reality against the backdrop of old nature and old burned huts, covered in old dirty rags...

The people were akin to a geological stratum. A great catastrophic force has disturbed them and it wasn't at all clear whether the disturbance has ended or not. The edges were still crumbling, the great many boulders were strewn around along with dust and debris, all indications of the calamity, scented with the smell of burning and explosions.

O, time! The great wise artist! On your palette you carry not only the greyness of our hair, or our hubris, or our shortsightedness, or an occasional sign of our bravery, but something unmeasurably wider, deeper and grander, that forms in the bright future a magnificent and tragic portrait of our people" - Oleksandr Dovzhenko.