A Bride To Remember

Near the Ferry by Serhiy Hryhoryev, 1978

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"The Mirror"

My first "The Phantom of the Opera" illustration for my MA project

Didn't have the opportunity to say this during my thesis defense so will do this here. You will see it in the next illustrations but all of the frames are the same but a bit different at the same time. And the different detail is the angel on the top of the frame. So my idea was that the angel is some kind of symbolic personification of Erik (Angel of Music you know...yeah i made that too literally) anyway the idea was to depict his presence even when he is not on the illustration or the chapter. He is omnipresent like some kind of the Opera "deity"(i don't like this word in that context but i cannot recall anything else)/spirit (at least this how he perceived by the ballet rats and the workers of the theatre). Like even when the viewer/reader cannot see him, the Phantom in fact is here inside my mind, reacting to what's happening around the building in different ways like some kind of viewer/reader as well(you'll see it i promise+maybe i'll make a post with all of the angel's faces)

This writing is kinda messy and English is not muy first language so yeah i'm afraid to even think about the amount of mistakes i've made (i did that explanation much better in Ukrainian lol but i need to find the text so maybe the translation would be better idk) there but i hope you've got the idea because even though it's just a small detail it's kinda important (at least personally for me lol)

some old + new sketches

love is love

sin / гріх

"The World" Tarot card got a chance to be in a cool tarot project together with other Ukrainian artists and i`m really happy with results

https://telegra.ph/Arcana-collaboration-03-15

here`s link to all artists and their artworks

This month, Olena Vladymyrets, a Holodomor witness from the Vinnytsia region,celebrated her 95th birthday. Ms Olena was born on November 4,1929. She is the only one of 3 daughters of Oleksandr and Marta Tsvylyk who survived the Holodomor. Photo from Nina Vladymyrets' Fb page. "We lived in Tomashpil village in the Khmilnytskyi district, Vinnytsia region.There were 3 of us: the eldest, Larysa, born in 1927; me, in 1929; the youngest, Mariyka, in 1932. Both of my sisters didn’t survive. Mariyka was only 5 months old," she told our museum staff in an interview. During the Holodomor, she was very young, but she heard from her parents that before collectivization, people lived decently. "Those who worked, they lived..." But then, all their bread was taken away. "You know, as they used to say: 'Lenin told Stalin to take away the 'surpluses' but Stalin thought: take everything to the last crumb!' And so they did. My mother managed to earn a small amount of grain and put it in a pot to cook. She placed the pot in the oven, covering it with cauldron of water as if she were only heating the water. Activists broke in, poured out the water, removed the small pot of grain, and dumped it into their bag. Neither tears nor pleas helped. They took everything from everyone, and that is how the famine began." In 1946-1947, Olena Oleksandrivna experienced yet another man-made famine. "Mother and five of us, children, (four were born after the Holodomor) were already without a father (he died in the war). In the winter of 1947, Mother travelled to Western Ukraine seven times to trade some household goods for food." Ms Olena recalls. "She took all the essential items we had at home, including linens, towels, and various other things. It was a hard journey; they travelled in boxcars,got caught,and were forced off. And I, at 16, stayed home alone with the children. When Mum returned from the West, she brought a bit of grain. We kept a little for ourselves,then took the rest to the market in Bykiv, 8–10 km away. There, Mum sold the grain and bought clothes—jackets, skirts, dresses, scarves to go back to the West, as we had already sold out everything we had. I looked at those clothes and wanted a dress or a skirt so badly; after all, I was a girl! But what could I say to my mother? There were still younger children at home who were asking for food…" Today, Ms Olena, along with all of Ukraine, is going through another hardship—the war unleashed by Russia. Despite her age, she helps her daughter Nina make trench candles for Ukrainian soldiers. In addition, throughout the summer, the women made homemade treats for the soldiers they grew themselves: pastila, adjika, pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, fruits, vegetables, and berries! Although our birthday celebrant needs a walker to move, she actively contributes to volunteer work. She rolls cardboard for candles, peels fruits and vegetables, and assists her daughter as much as she can. Her daughter has also sent five drones to the front lines and provided medications, tourniquets and other essential items requested by the soldiers. We wish Ms Olena health,a long life,and a speedy Victory,which she dreams of more than anything else! May her dream come true! —Holodomor Museum

Why he look so weird...............