Cherries, cherries

The drawing created in the time of the anticipation of liberating Melitopol, a city in the south of Ukraine, famous for its sweet cherries. The dream-like rural landscape was inhibiting my mind for quite some time until found its way on paper. Naive, kind-hearted and full of light, just like the artworks of many Ukrainian rural regions.

This artwork is part of the Heritage series where I explore my own inner landscape and childhood memories, processing the grief of war that struck my homeland, and finding hope and resolution in creating, despite destruction.

The work is an oil pastel on paper.