"My friend returned to Bucha and found his house almost destroyed"

Yuliya Tveritina – Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, master of linear painting, graphic artist, and illustrator. Julia is from Kyiv. For many years she has been living and working in Suzhou (China). From the first days of the war the artist began to keep an art diary of the war.

May 2nd, my friend Vitalik returned to Bucha and found his house almost destroyed. Ten minutes walk from the house, he found his sofa in the middle of neighbors field and ,,someone else's washing machine,, (which has already become sort of national meme). He sat down on the sofa, wrapped in the surviving blanket, and thought about how lucky he was then to go to work in Kyiv on the first day of the invasion. Storks walked slowly around. Some time later, someone's emaciated cat came and fell asleep on his lap.