Azovstal Painting

The body of work which began with an exploration of language and geometry shifted suddenly at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. An artist's reaction to war is different to each individual, however many artists fight the war in their work. As Picasso once said, 'Art is an instrument of war.' I strongly believe that if we can fight destruction with creativity, we can combat anything. 'Azovstal,' along with many other works during that time period, is representative of my own way of fighting the Ukraine war in my own studio practice. *Several years before in 2009, I also exhibited another earlier work during the Ukrainian Art Week in a building called the Central Artist's House of the National Artist's Union—a building that I saw tragically bombed during the coverage of the war.