"I started drawing the victims on the second day of the war, one portrait a day, so that the process does not become mechanical.
I search Facebook for the words '' and ',' 'died' in Ukrainian, and then I look for more information on the names.
Most often there are two photos at best, and Ive made one portrait from a photo of a dead body, so mostly, the likeness is elusive, but Im trying to achieve a certain clarity of the impression I get from a person's face.
I do not hope to understand more.The hashtag #collateraldamage means 'one should remember the term collateral damage.' It's a quote from the press conference of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, 'I express my condolences for the dead children, but the Russian Armed Forces use high-precision weapons.
And one should remember the term collateral damage'."