ukraine@war

ukraine@war

Day 721

Last trench of truth

Feb 14, 2024
∙ Paid

—It’s banal, but knowing.

—Knowing.

—Well, knowing-but-not-really-caring. You know, like, detached and above, but not critical, or not cynical rather, kind of like embracing the whole thing, the whole product...

—What product?

—The product of Ukraine, insofar as it is filtered through a sort of, like, lovely-little-things aesthetic, you know, like things that tug gently at the memory as well as would look really kind of, like, detached.

—And who is the target audience?

—Well, you know, anyone.

—And it’s mostly visual.

—Oh yes, we have all these lovely-little-things to shoot, like death, injury and persecution.

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