Kyivan Madonna

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children,” William Makepeace Thackeray once wrote, and now facing war in Ukraine, with thousands of civilians living in horror and not knowing if they have tomorrow, we also see thousands of expressions of mother's love.

This artwork is one of them, and it is inspired by the real photo of the real mother hiding with her baby in Kyiv subway while the city was under shelling. Sadly, that's the look of Kyivan Madonna in 2022.

Please, stop the war.

Stand with Ukraine.

Children shouldn't suffer.

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