Trees of Life, Trees of Death

TREES OF LIFE, TREES OF DEATH

monotype, blind embossing
21 × 28 cm
2022

Two patterns repeat endlessly, part of a silent ritual. Following the ornament of the traditional Ukrainian Tree of Life, reshaped to carry the weight of contemporary existential crises.

Life and death turn in cycles, fragile and relentless, offering only the quiet rhythm of existence itself, without fairness.

It is an experience of grief, of accepting the parts that survive.