“Peace breeds love, love bleeds peace and the world longs to bleed”

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These are the words written by Irish troubadour Foy Vance in “Hope, Peace and Love” (used with kind permission…thanks always Foy) and I keep coming back to them time and time again. What they say totally relates to this suite of six new works , each made in a day, one each week for the first six weeks of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

 

“Though these are difficult works, they are not without hope”* There is one work for each of the first six weeks of war in Ukraine and the final work, “и будет мир - and there shall be peace” holds fast to that hope.

 

вторжение - invasion

всегда готов - always prepared 

период перехода - time of transition 

провокация -Provocation

зажигательный - incendiary 

i буде мир - and there shall be peace 

 

*Elizabeth Mahoney review of my solo exhibition Sacred Science (2001)