Ukraine ablaze

Tablets of Rage

Technique:

Series of handwriting on the textile

Year:

2022

I created the first piece in this series on March 24, 2022. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been going on for exactly a month. Living in Kharkiv, one of the most bombed cities in Ukraine, between the flat and the underground bomb shelter, to keep myself sane and not fall into despair, I started to write these poems. In them, I put all my rage, all my anger towards the Russians, who have been killing, raping, and destroying my home city, my country - and keep doing it even now. At the time, I didn't have paper of proper size, and I couldn't buy it, because all the shops were closed, and the post didn’t work well, so I used old bed linen that I had from my grandma and other textiles I found around the house as canvases. «Tablets of Rage» are my prayers, my magic spells, and my incantations to curse the enemy.

Olia Fedorova. Tablets of Rage