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There is a tapestry made from the pieces of fabrics of different patterns as collage. The background of an image is in gray and lilac tones with pale flowers. They fall on the ground like snow. The ground is white. There are more than a dozen white crosses of graves that emerge from the ground. This symbolic landscape is decorated by different kinds of flowers cut from different fabrics of floral patterns, and these flowers frame the image and fall on the ground near the graves. On the top of the image are red word "Why", and the question mark is red and is under the question. Below, on the white background of the ground are a gray word "War". The frame of the image is red and made of fabrics. It extends to a blood that drains to the floor and forms a puddle of blood made of fabric. Between the image and the red frame there is another thin frame made of blue and yellow strips which are the colors of Ukrainian flag.

Why War?

Oksana Briukhovetska

Textile collage, 44 x 79 in, 2022

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The flowers in the tapestry are associated with grief. There are hundreds of graves of killed civilians and children throughout Ukraine due to the Russian war in Ukraine.