Ukraine is not a dream. Ukraine is my home. Україна, це ні сон, ні мрія. Україна, це моя Батьківщина.
“The Light Keeper”
Берегиня Світла
artwork by displaced Ukrainian photographer Ksenia Lisna
What does my art mean to me: Coming as I do from a port city and shipbuilding centre in the southern region of Ukraine, the ethos of sea, sky, and steppe are never far away. Mykolayiv is situated on the river Buh, which flows into The Black Sea. Here, the water is deep. During the Cold War, Mykolayiv included a military base, was closed to outsiders, and did not exist on maps.
I am a boundary-crosser and new world visionary. I seek beauty in everything and everyone.
English translation facilitated by Inna Walker and Andrea Mozarowski
— I see the worlds beyond your world
for you have worlds inside your ribs as well. Breathe.
Just breathe, my blue beauty. Your breathing
turns the world.
“Earth’s Lullaby, or To the Child Now Grown” by Kathleen McCoy
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“It Stays in Our Body” by Mehreen Hashmi
What does my writing/art mean to me? My work falls under the category of art activism to create awareness for PTSD, its recovery and suffering of abuse survivors afterwards. My work has been a catharsis and my strongest voice for me.
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