THE BIRD AND THE HUNTER

Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2024

I dreamed that I am floating above the ground and see far below a green field and a lake (Petushki, Vasilki village, in my childhood my grandfather used to take me fishing on this lake, I was afraid to touch the caught perch and pike). Very warm and sunny in summer. Next to me, at the same level,  a hunter is hovering. Together we are stalking a black bird, an eagle or a hawk (in summer at the dacha I often noticed how they circle in the sky in search of prey). I beg the hunter not to kill the bird, but he fires his bow. At that moment I start to lose my balance and I am pulled to fall from a great height to the ground.