“Icon of Justice” 70x75cm. 2025

paper, gouache, colored pastel, colored pencils, watercolor

A veiled woman stands solemnly in front of a burning Kremlin, cradling an anti-tank weapon as if it were an infant fragile and sacred. Her expression is calm yet unyielding, echoing the iconographic sorrow of religious imagery with a new kind of divine wrath.

This work reimagines the concept of holiness through the lens of war and vengeance.

The background - the Kremlin in flames symbolizes the collapse of a brutal empire.

The woman becomes both mother and martyr, protector and avenger.

A spiritual resistance rises from the ashes.