Flower for Ukraine

(warning - the following contains graphic and disturbing images of death)

Poster art of a child's limp arm lying in the street next to a teddy bear with a sunflower in her hand.

Flower for Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been difficult for me.

It disturbed me to think of children, mothers, daughters, sons, and fathers, who were living their lives just last week, and are no longer here today. I have Russian friends who are dear to me and have talked of their horror and sadness and given me insight into what people are having to deal with in both Russia and Ukraine.

The line art for "Flower for Ukraine," a poster created by artist Dremaceo Giles

I think about what I can do and I’m honestly at a bit of a loss. I’m no soldier, so volunteering to fight is impotent. What’s the Ukrainian resistance going to do with a pacifist? I could bring my acoustic maybe and play them some songs.

So in my frustration, I turn to art. It feels so inept and insignificant.

But let us not forget.

The arm of a child sticks out of the ground in a mass grave in Bucha.

Remains of a child in a mass grave in Bucha. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)

A ashen hand sticks out of the ground in a mass grave in Bucha.

The hand of a corpse buried in a mass grave in Bucha. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)The hand of a corpse buried in a mass grave in Bucha. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)The hand of a corpse buried in a mass grave in Bucha. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)

A young man's corpse stares vacantly from his body bag. War in Ukraine.

A corpse lies in a body bag as investigators begin assessing evidence of suspected war crimes in Bucha. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)

A wallet lays on the body of a dead corpse with a picture of a daughter inside..

A wallet containing a photo of a young girl lies on top of a corpse in Bucha on April 6. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)

A war crimes investigator surveys the bodies of the dead in Bucha.

A War Crimes prosecutor looks at bodies in black plastic bags pulled from a mass grave behind a church in Bucha on April 11. (Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press)

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