About the album ОНИ НАШИ

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a literary research about the Soviet forced labour camps called The Gulag Archipelago. This inspired me to write and draw MOLITVY, or PRAYERS. I believe that as the viewer and reader peruse the texts and images within my prayer book, they can, under their influence, keenly grasp the insane and senseless enormity of the Gulag once again – the still haunting, timeless culpability of this boundless sin. The responsibility to redeem the injustice and torment endured by those who suffered there falls upon the compassionate individuals of today. Evil deeds were not confined to the Gulag. All tribulations, suffering and redemption are intertwined with us, us, us…