Description Edit Subject, Category, Year Subject Abstract Category Mixed Media Year 2022 Mediums, Materials & Styles Mediums Acrylic, Found Objects Materials Acrylic, Canvas, Found Objects, Plastic Styles Abstract, Abstract Expressionism, Folk Dimensions 16 W x 20 H x 0.5 D inches Keywords Sadness, yellow, blossoms, plastic, Ukraine, death, mourning, beloved Description I was inspired to create this piece by the daily sight in my newsfeed of funerals in Ukraine. So many coffins and so many perfectly arranged flowers, wrapped in cellophane. Then, these same flowers huddled like refugees around and on tombstones throughout the bitter winters of relentless war. How many soldiers and civilians have died thus far? And for what have they been sacrificed. Though their deaths are noble, they are in fact a direct result of the senseless invasion whose only true purpose is to feed the ego and fantasies of an aging autocrat. Week after week and month after month, the perfect bouquets of flowers in the graveyarss stand at attention. They never wilt and they never fade or decay and wither as they should. Logic has an inexorable quality but creeps up slowly sometimes as the truth dawns. There could be no way on the Lord's good earth that Ukrainians could afford, let alone import this many resplendant blooms from the hectares of Greenhouses in the Netherlands. Not possible, I realize with a jolt, as though waking from a dream. Then I look closer. The flowers are all plastic. All the beautifully arranged displays and battalions of blooms are synthetic, a biproduct of the same oil that powers auto and jet engines and heats homes. Funny, or not? I hope viewers can appreciate the strange paradox. On the one hand, of a nation's endless grief and mourning for loved ones and on the other the reality of only being able to afford plastic flowers. Yet how strangely fitting in a way, that this symbol of grief and pain will remain perfectly preserved and fresh forever. It is a monument to resilence and eternal memory. I chose to express my feelings of solidarit6 with simple materials I found in a dollar store. Glue and layers of sealant preserve my homage to a people whose hope endures.

Artwork Size & Ink Base:

41x26

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