woodcut; paper 11×11″
“To some extent, the theme for me is about the abuse of human rights for so many years in my motherland, and so on, it’s about economic failure, poverty, discrimination, and exile at last. Although I didn’t use preliminary drawings, I made several sketches to clean up the idea. Many years ago the monument was built as the Civic Square of the republic in a public tender. After the triumph of the revolution, in 1959, it was appropriated by the victorious side, and was renamed the Revolution Square. I worked with the famous Revolution’s Square monument sinking at sea with a very cloudy sky. A white and black square woodcut with minimal area of watercolored red Phrygian cap on top of the composition surrounded by fangs. In a certain way, after a hazardous long walk we are at the bloody starting point.”