Lesia Pik
August 26, 2023
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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August 26, 2023
Lesia Pik
August 24, 2023
I congratulate everyone on Independence Day!!! Thanks to all defenders! Give us strength and endurance! I decided to draw a periwinkle - as one of the symbols of Ukraine.In Ukrainian language periwinkle-"Barvinok".This plant was named so in honor of the love of the young man Bar and the girl Vinka. The scientific name comes from the Latin word, which means "to win". Did you know such a legend?
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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August 24, 2023
Lesia Pik
August 19, 2023
On August 19, 2023, Russia again committed a terrorist attack, dropping a bomb on a drama theater in Chernihiv. There are many victims, including children. My condolences to the families of the victims! There are no words, only grief and anger. I saw the video on the Internet, I did not find the owner, I apologize for that
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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August 19, 2023
Lesia Pik
August 14, 2023
30*40 cm The first part of the triptych. 3:25 explosions in Odessa continue. I'm in the bath. Full text - So let me tell you about my work. It is autobiographical. 9 years ago (in the summer of 2014), I broke my leg very badly (I had to do an operation and insert pins and a plate). It was a turning point for both me and my country. So you understand my fixation on legs and pain. But I did not want to depict this suffering. And I wanted to present it more optimistically. Maybe even encouraging myself, with some kind of challenge, a little screaming or even a little cheeky))) In this work, I wanted to show part of the cycle of life. As the past, present and future. What happened before, during, and after. In this work, I wanted to show part of the cycle of life. Yes, yes, I know it sounds too pathetic))) but so be it. And finally - about the choice of colors. For some, "red is love, and black is grief." For someone - embroidery colors. Or maybe UPA colors? There will be no conclusions)
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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August 14, 2023
Lesia Pik
August 6, 2023
Canvas 40*45cm Now the war has moved to the stage of drones, the war of the future. But there are still people who choose the pill of denial of reality. Yes, I understand that it is impossible to convince everyone, but the more people who are switched on, the faster we will win. There is no need to wait for one and only Neo. You should try to become one in your industry. Although Trinity is also acceptable, she was also not bad))) Happy Ukrainian Air Force Day. Thank you to our Armed Forces! Our Neo-warriors! Donate to the drones, donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Because together we are strong!
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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August 6, 2023
Lesia Pik
July 29, 2023
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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July 29, 2023
Lesia Pik
July 27, 2023
This is how I wait during the bombing of my city. Russia specifically does this at 2-3 am. So that if you don't suffer physically, you suffer morally. Russia wants to kill or maim us. I don't revel in the idea that a bathtub will save me if a missile hits my house. But if a missile or a piece of debris lands near my house, at least it won't cut me with glass from the window
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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July 27, 2023
Lesia Pik
July 17, 2023
Canvas 30*40 cm It is interesting that in Ukrainian the word "war" is feminine. But both women and men die from it. don't stop donating and helping the Ukrainian army. The war continues
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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July 17, 2023
Lesia Pik
July 6, 2023
Russia strikes Lviv: four people are killed, the number of wounded increases to 34. Rescue and search operations are underway. Almost every day Russia commits terrorist acts on the territory of Ukraine. I am not feeling very well today, so the picture is just intuitive. Eyes that look at tragedies, some sad, some indifferent some for the last time
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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July 6, 2023
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Lesia Pik
June 23, 2023
"Information bubble" 30*40 cmI wanted to raise some topics that concern me. There will be no conclusions, only questions and my thoughts. We are all in our own information bubble. It is almost impossible to get out of it, but it is possible to expand it. Someone said that social networks unite. Yes, they do. But sometimes I get the feeling that we seem to be shouting, but the world doesn't want to hear us. Like bubbles under water from the blown up Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. I live in a war, I watch the war online. It worries me, it traumatizes me. But I cannot turn a blind eye to it. Because people who are for everything good and against everything bad do not want to see this reality. Maybe the Russians will blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, maybe we will be just an information trail.
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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June 23, 2023
Mari Seroshtanova
June 15, 2023
Donate to reinforce our air defense, to sleep well https://novaposhta.ua/zapakuy_nebo/
Mari Seroshtanova
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June 15, 2023
Kate Didyk
June 14, 2023
The amount of grief brought to the beautiful Kherson region by the russian army is immeasurable
Kate Didyk
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June 14, 2023
Nina Teafornina
June 8, 2023
We all woke up to news of ruzzian occupiers blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. A lot of places are flooded, people and animals are in danger, some are dying right now, while the left bank of Kherson is occupied so we cannot even help our people evacuate from there. The ruzzians are not helping people, instead they are constantly shelling possible evacuation points. The scale of this environmental disaster is similar to Chornobyl. It’s not the first time ruzzians blew up a dam in my country — they did the same in 1941 with Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
Nina Teafornina
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June 8, 2023
Daria Lucyshyna
June 7, 2023
A huge ecological & humanitarian disaster was caused by #russia blowing up #Kakhowka dam in Ukraine. Over 80 towns are flooded. People lose their homes. Animals in the local zoo d¡ed painfully. Natural sites and agricultural resources are destroyed. A nuclear plant is at risk. And more devastating consequences are yet to come because of the russians' eco-terror¡sm
Artist
Daria Lutsyshyna is an artist born in Dnipro, living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. Daria creates illustrations, posters, and graphic design. During the full-scale Russian invasion, she focused on illustrating war-related texts, news, her own experience of war, and reflections on its nature and consequences. She believes art is not "outside of politics" and artists and their work matter and can make a difference.
Daria Lucyshyna
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June 7, 2023
Jullia Lyshanets
June 7, 2023
Homes, cities, people, animals... Ruszia is destroying our everything, everything. ⠀ They destroyed the dams and reservoir of the Kakhovskaya HPP - this is a man-made blow to the environment, after which nature will have to recover for decades! A tragedy for the whole world
Jullia Lyshanets
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June 7, 2023
Daria Bakieva
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June 6, 2023
Lesia Pik
June 6, 2023
Russia is a terrorist state! The man-made disaster created by them threatens not only people, but also the entire environment. I want to scream! should we be underwater and buried? This is a catastrophe, the consequences of which we cannot yet understand!
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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June 6, 2023
Julia Zinchenko
June 6, 2023
Today, the Kakhovskaya HPP dam was partially destroyed. A zoo was flooded, many animals died and were injured, many people were left without their homes, the current water level reached the rooftops in Nova Kakhovka. As a result of the destruction of the damn, at least 150 tons of machine oil got into the Dnipro, and there is a risk of further leakage of more than 300 tons
Artist
Yulia Zinchenko is an illustrator from Kyiv. She draws both digitally and traditionally. When the full-scale war began, she started to paint on the subject of the war in Ukraine in order to convey the events and feelings to the world, and to keep Ukraine’s struggle at the forefront of world news. In the past, she loved to draw her dog the most. She would like to work on illustrations for books and is always open to interesting projects.
Julia Zinchenko
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June 6, 2023
Irada Suleimanova
June 1, 2023
Waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of an air raid siren. Watching from the window how the air defense shoots down a ballistic missile, which is falling somewhere close, slowly fading away. Reading in the news that it fell on a children’s clinic in our district, killing three people, including a mother and her 9-year-old daughter who were trying to reach the shelter. Realising that today is International Children’s Day. Russia is a terrorist state.
Artist
Irada is an artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Drawing for her is a way of reflecting on what's happening in the world, her emotions and experiences.
Irada Suleimanova
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June 1, 2023
Daria Bakieva
June 1, 2023
“Children’s Day” in Ukraine. Today on “Children’s day”, russia shelled Kyiv, killing a 9-year-old girl
Daria Bakieva
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June 1, 2023
Lesia Pik
June 1, 2023
Russia continues to kill Ukrainian children! Russia is a terrorist state!
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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June 1, 2023
Lesia Pik
May 29, 2023
Mermay is a challenge for artists. From the words "mermaid" and "may". I wanted to show that there can be no art outside of politics.This wound is a war started by russia. Today there were explosions in Kyiv in broad daylight. Russia continues to attack my country. A friend called me and told me that while she was sitting in the bomb shelter, she did not understand whether she would survive (the explosions were so loud). Did you watch the video of children screaming and running from the explosions... Don't be on the sidelines of the war - help in any way you can, whether by adding or spreading information or in any other way. But do not close your eyes, do not turn away, do not pretend that nothing is happening!
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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May 29, 2023
Lesia Pik
May 16, 2023
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
Lesia Pik
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May 16, 2023
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