RF Invades Ukraine

The night that started on February 23 here in California, was the second worse in my...

Masks of Irony

In one version of this visual piece, I wanted to contemplate multiple levels of irony...

Introduction to Artists

Script Anachronism

This is an illustration of an anachronistic mix of art and script styles of four...

Books I Read in 2021

I finished 51 books, almost all of them non-fiction. My favorite dozen books I read...

Ukrainian Nomads Scyths

My family of origin friends, Svetlana Andrukh and Gennady Toschev were the lead...

Ukrainian Terror Famine

These concise notes on Holodomor is a part of my attempt to explain why I so worried...

Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia

From the second through the fifth years, I lived in Huliaipole (Гуляйполе =...

Maternal Aunt

My mother's sister was the first child of my grandmother, ten years older than my...

Art Game Party #1

One day, we are going to play a new conversational game with art pieces. Three...