Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka, 2022
Mixed media on canvas 160x190x3,5 cm
At Digital Group Exhibition Broadway Plaza, Times Square, 22d of June 2023, NY, USA
“Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka” is for me a paradoxical metaphor, originally a collection of short stories by the Ukraine writer Nikolai Gogol, written 1829–32, stories we all knew and loved in our childhood, heavily laced with Ukrainian folklore and cultural references, offering a unique perspective into life in the country in Gogol's time. The dark allegory came to me in March this year when I learned of the excesses of the Russian army in Bucha Ukraine, meaningful for me because of close friends and early years there
