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Ukrainian Woman
The mural Ukrainian Woman was created in 2022 in Tbilisi in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It depicts a woman in traditional Ukrainian clothing and is located on a building opposite the Russian embassy.
A striking detail is the "bleeding" of the flowers, where the red appears to flow out of the poppies.
The curator of the festival @beskamazo, while he was inviting me, said, "We have a special wall for you, opposite the Russian embassy's building." (correctly speaking, it was the Russian Federation Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tbilisi). Yes, yes, and I made a mural there.
I portrayed a Ukrainian woman in a traditional embroidered shirt holding a huge bouquet of wildflowers with ears of wheat. She is proud and full of light. She looks straight ahead, with a barely noticeable smile, to all the obstacles and fears in the eyes. It symbolizes our strength, inner energy, freedom and will.
Despite the terrible and cruel war, we, as a nation, will endure, become even stronger, and we will live! There were several situations when people from the opposite building tried to stop me from working on the mural just because the Ukrainian was drawing there.
I'm grateful to @maziashvilibeka for the warm welcome and organization, and that they stood their ground to the end and believed that we could accomplish everything we intended to do in the first place.
Sasha Korban
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