Zoïa Mossour via Instagram: “I am wearing a traditional Ukrainian Vyshyvanka hand weaved (made of hemp) and embroidered by my great grandmother Бабушка Ганна who went through Holodormor (forced starvation in Ukraine by the Red Army between 1933 and 1934) and Nazi occupation (from 1941 to 1944). Today the Russian Army is present in her village. Now it is time for peace and freedom.”
Satire of artists “selling out”
Select magazine / December 1997
weirdly specific image
This is a letter someone tried to send from Mariupol. Translated from russian, it says:
“Dima, mom died on 9th of March 2022. Died quickly. Then the house burned down. Dima, I’m sorry I couldn’t save her! I buried mom near the kindergarten. I love you”. In the bottom there a map to find the grave.
The city of Mariupol has been under siege for weeks. The people trapped inside don’t have electricity, water or food supplies. Cell phone, television and radio towers aren’t working anymore, now the people don’t have access to any information from the outside world.
80-90% of the city is destroyed. And it’s not a small town - almost 450k residents before the war.
No one knows if the man who wrote this letter is alive anymore.
The Russian airstrike destroyed another historic residential building in the centre of Kharkiv. Built in 1911 by Moysey Melytynsky who later contributed to designing the first stations of the Moscow Metro, the house was a monument of architectural heritage.
I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone. I walked around for months talking to you. Now I don’t know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you.
Paris, Texas (1984) dir. Wim Wenders
MICHELLE PFEIFFER as Stephanie Zinone Grease 2 (1982)