Ukrainian sun 

“When the Ukrainian sun rises, Russia will disappear” Dzokhar Dudayev. “Ukrainian sun” is my  artwork which I have created as an artist in residence at “Uzupis Art Incubator”, Vilnius, Lithuania . It is the third artwork I have named by this name and probably not the last. When something important happens, something that might affect an artist's creative process and pushes him/her to build up something important on that topic, usually that takes a long enough time to see the result of anything valuable and interesting. When the Russian terrorist state started a full scale military attack on Ukraine, Unfortunately my creativity was more than ready to accompany the development of this disastrous war. The reason why that happened so naturally for me is that my art has been focused on the problems of Russian occupation for the past few years. The reason is that I am from Georgia, the country which has been suffering from Russian imperialism for more than the last 200 years and 20% of my country is still occupied by Russian terrorists. Despite the state being captured in Georgia by Russian oligarch, the absolute majority of Georgian citizens, consider the war in Ukraine as their common war with Ukrainians against Russia. The Georgian volunteer military units are the largest foreign units who are fighting in Ukraine side by side with Ukrainian soldiers against the Russian terrorist state.Unfortunately 48 of them fell on the battlefield and sacrificed their lives for Ukraine, for Georgia and for peace and freedom in the whole world. The bravest of the humans are fighting on battlefields right now, but the least we all can do is to support Ukraine whenever it is possible. I think every single, small support for Ukraine matters. That is what I try to do with my artworks and will do till the victory of Ukraine and as a brave freedom fighter, first president of independent Ichkeria, Dzokhar Dudayev said: “When the Ukrainian sun rises, Russia will disappear”. I am waiting for the Ukrainian sunrise .

George Gagoshidze