Maryna’s project called “Letters” is centered around the story of her family, which was forcibly separated after the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022. It depicts the traumatic experience of her family’s ruined life and the problems of forced immigration, the choice of Maryna's husband, who left his artistic practice behind to join the ranks at the beginning of the war.

Through her personal experience, Maryna rethinks her attitude to the change in feelings, and how it changes the paradigm of her family’s existence during the war: losing the feeling of having family ties, longing for each other, lack of time spent together, the impossibility of family reunion, and the fact that the only way for them to communicate with each other is through the Internet or by sending her daughter’s drawings to her husband. By creating the drawing, Maryna’s daughter conveys to her father all her longing for him and her desire to see him after the victory, her longing for the lost life as a family, her great hopes and dreams for the future, and for family reunification.

Frozen ceramic objects shaped as picture letters appeal to the symbol of that conscious love for the father that lives in her. Wherever he is, in the barracks or in the trenches, he carries these drawings folded by small hands of his only daughter in his pocket near his heart. This is the love that can give support and a bit of warmth during the war. The project was accompanied by a video documenting Maryna’s story of forced immigration, the process of her daughter Ivanka’s drawing, and her husband Tymofii’s own story of the war.