“On February 24 last year, the war began, along with the diary that I kept throughout the occupation. It was one of the hardest days of my life and the beginning of the most profound inner transformation.” Published in February, Ukrainian lens-based artist @mikhail_ray_art captures his reflections about the occupation and the impact on his existence through the piece ‘The Diary’. Roland continues in the caption: “All the 9 months that I spent in the occupation, I saw people like me, fighting for their freedom from the aggressor, but first of all from their fears. Waking up on this day, a year later, I feel the same emotions and feelings as then because the body remembers all the experienced events. All my life (and not only mine), it has kept its own diary and reread it regularly, reminding me in the morning of all the upheavals that happened on this day, a year, five, ten, thirty or three hundred years ago.” — #beautifulbizarre #mikhailray #diary #mixedmedia #artforpeace #ukraine #artist #art #inspiration #creativity #newcontemporary #contemporaryart https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpiitn5vpUq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
