This piece is about distance. Between bodies. Between memories. Between who we are and who we were told to be.
I didn’t create it. I uncovered it.
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They Left Us Flags
They gave us symbols.
Flags — but not bread.
The past and the present are written in dust and stains.
I’m still here.⠀
#TheyLeftUsFlags #GelaMikava #ContemporaryArt #PoliticalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAsResistance #StillHere #VisualPoetry #onview #postsocialistradiation
They Left Us Flags
They gave us symbols.
Flags — but not bread.
The past and the present are written in dust and stains.
I’m still here.⠀
#TheyLeftUsFlags #GelaMikava #ContemporaryArt #PoliticalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAsResistance #StillHere #VisualPoetry #onview #postsocialistradiation
If you show weakness for even a second — they’ll crush you.
Here, tenderness is punished.
In this system, feelings have no value.
The ones who waver — are erased.
#trauma #softness #power #contemporaryart #paintinginstallation #emergingartist #textinart #identity #mixedmedia #gelamikava
If you show weakness for even a second — they’ll crush you.
Here, tenderness is punished.
In this system, feelings have no value.
The ones who waver — are erased.
#trauma #softness #power #contemporaryart #paintinginstallation #emergingartist #textinart #identity #mixedmedia #gelamikava
If you show weakness for even a second — they’ll crush you.
Here, tenderness is punished.
In this system, feelings have no value.
The ones who waver — are erased.
#trauma #softness #power #contemporaryart #paintinginstallation #emergingartist #textinart #identity #mixedmedia #gelamikava