Azov Sea Painting

"Azov Sea" can be seen as a tribute to my hometown Mariupol and the painter Archip Ivanovich Kuinji, who was born there, because he painted the most (from my point of view) impressive water motifs. It filled me with deep sadness when his museum was destroyed during the war. But I am also thinking of my friends and family who still lived there and who suffered from the blockade and lost everything. But not only things, but also relationships are broken. While the left ship moves to the left towards the storm and becomes smaller and smaller, the almost identical-looking larger ship moves towards the sun to the right. This is what it looks like even with families that have been torn apart and (outwardly similar) are now moving spiritually in different directions. Many families are Ukrainian and Russian and intertwined. The war is tearing them apart. The propaganda is strong and even family ties sometimes cannot stand it.