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Olha Korol

b. Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014

Childhood in Ukraine

color pencils, markers on paper, 8.5 x 11 in

Created on October 31, 2022

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See all of the works in the exhibit HERE

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At the time of painting, the artist was in Kyiv.

$200

sold/private collection

The drawing has been reserved for purchase, but you can still help Olha by using the project founder's Venmo HERE and all the money will be forwarded to Olha and her family.

This drawing is a special feature of this exhibit. It was created by an eight-year-old girl in a basement of a building while sheltering from the Russian bombing. The focal point here is the house, it is nice, big, and intact. There are trees in the park and the streets are full of cars. Overall, everything is normal, but few things are throwing it off balance. In the upper right is a Russian bomb with a letter "Z" - a symbol of the Russian invasion - falling from the sky, with an explosion underneath, it is almost poised to cut this picture diagonally. Under the house we can see children playing ball in the basement/bomb shelter. The chairs are empty there as there is no one to watch them play since the adults left to defend their country, but the fact that there is an open door shows that there is a way out of this.

Olha was born in March 2014 during the pro-European protests and clashes between people and a Russian-leaning president. She is already a child of a new and reborn Ukraine. Unfortunately, she does not know her country fully at peace as Russia launched the first invasion back in 2014 and occupied Crimea and the Donbas region. During one of the recent massive rocket attacks on Ukraine a rocket hit close to where Olha lives with her parents, the building she was in began to tremble and some of the windows shattered. Her parents quickly took her down to the basement that works as a bomb shelter, this is where this drawing was made.

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