Alevtina Kakhidze

It seems like all the women in my bloodline know what war is. My grandmother met war when she was 21 years old; she became a soldier in WW2. My mother saw how the Russia-Ukraine war started in 2014; she got tired of it – here is her story:

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On the 24th of February 2022 I met the brutal escalation of this war in my village. There was shelling at the cemetery where I buried my mother and now I do not know if “she” is resting in peace or not.

I am writing these words from my studio, hearing shelling since 24 February. I have total disappointment in humans – we are still militaristic. It doesn’t matter where you are. Nevertheless, I wrote a note on my door that says: follow the example of plants - they are the biggest pacifists on our planet, they don’t kill each other as we humans do.