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An Ukrainian refugee girl, looking out of a bus window with her drawings on it, as civilians flee from Russian bombshelled Irpin, Ukraine.
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The story behind this picture
The story behind this picture
But, although different, to me this picture is just as iconic as Kim Phuc`s. A girl who flees from the horrors of Irpin, Ukraine.
Who has just drawn something in the condensation on the window of the bus in which she is sitting (a wish? a motive for life? a pointer to humanity?).
Something that is in stark contrast to what is happening in the real outside world.
5.9 million people have now fled Russian terror.
Displaced from home and family, they are now in a safe, but essentially strange, unknown and insecure place. With an equally uncertain future. With family and friends left behind in the war.
No: this is not a romantic `Together-in-this-time` picture, but the reality!
My ever nagging question with this portrait is therefore constantly: Where is she - this artist on the window - now?
Where is she now?
WHERE -- IS -- SHE -- NOW?
Oil paint and glacies on wood panel
63 h x 84 w, 24.8" h x 33" w
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