"«Cross»"
Series "On this side of the past". Cardboard, oil, texture paste, threads, 50 x 40 cm, 2024 y.
700 Euros
It is impossible to stop looking at this girl’s eyes. She does not even try to straighten her back in front of the photographer or to smile. There’s such a natural grace and restraint in her.
But do you know what touched me the most? Her “korsetka” is already a little too small, and the top button has come undone in a childlike way, showing the cross on her chest. It made me want to hug her. Perhaps it was a gift from her godparents. Maybe she will never part with it and will live a long life with it. Hopefully, this cross will protect her from evil and grant her a happy fate.
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The publication “History of Ukraine in Vintage Photographs”: https://www.facebook.com/share/1GtkRJKfen/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Дівчинка з села Хоробичі, що на Городнянщині (Чернігівська область). A girl from the village of Khorobychi in the Gorodnya District (Chernihiv Oblast). 1910s. Photograph by Natalia Semplikevych, the daughter of a landowner who photographed her fellow villagers.
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Haisyn Regional Museum of Local History. A pectoral cross with the image of St. Barbara. https://museum.mincult.gov.ua/collections/hrest-natilniy-iz-obrazom-svyatoi-varvari
