No End in Sight

The artwork confronts the viewer with a fractured visual terrain where colour, texture and layered collage converge into a restless, overwhelming whole. Created at the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the work channels the emotional dissonance of a world abruptly reordered by war — not as distant news, but as something felt in the body, in the gut, in the inability to look away. Scattered across the red field, small golden crosses drift like seeds or wounds — at once grave markers and sacred symbols, casualties counted, and faith tested. Embedded throughout the composition, collaged fragments surface and disappear: jewellery, icons, horses, ornamental patterns, the residue of cultures that existed before our time and will exist after we are long gone. The blue heraldic form on the right of the work — part shield, part vessel, part unknowable symbol — sits ringed in orange fire, holding its shape against the chaos around it.