The painting continues my collection ‘War in Ukraine’. And the main theme in it is the hope for dawn after a long, long night, which is evidenced by the flowers ready to blossom on the trees and a blossoming tulip on the ruins of a house. And the first rays of the rising sun are already visible on the walls of the empty and ruined houses.

I painted this picture in the format of an art battle organized by the Ukrainian art association Art Fine Nation. The competition was called ‘Paint me a poem by Lina Kostenko’. The artists chose a poem from those proposed by Art Fine Nation and an art pair of artists who chose the same poem. Then, for 10 days, the pair of artists painted paintings (each of them their own) on the theme of the poem. The paintings then took part in a selection competition, and the winners will be presented at the collective exhibition in Kiev.

A little more, a little more –
and the flowers on the trees will bloom,
and the will fly around like a rhizomes’ dream.

War paints watercolour paintings with blood.
Its palette –
is the ashes of fires.

Its landscape –
is the ruins of neighbourhoods.
Empty streets are faded pastels.

Unless some tulips suddenly sprout somewhere
through the groaning rubble.

Lina Kostenko

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TITLE: A little more — and the flowers on the trees will bloom…
COLLECTION: War in Ukraine
YEAR: 2025
ARTWORK TYPE: Original Art/One of a kind
DIMENSIONS: 70 х 50 sm
TECHNIQUES: Acrylic
RELATED THEMES: City landscape, War
SUPPORT OR SURFACE: Canvas on the canvas-stretcher
FRAMING: No