A young Ukrainian artist has created a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin with bullet casings.
The exhibit, called the “Face of War,” opened last week in Washington, D.C. The artist is 33-year-old Daria Marchenko. She used 5,000 empty shell casings that came from the frontline of war in eastern Ukraine. Ms. Marchenko’s exhibit consists of only picture the face of Mr. Putin.
She said she got the idea when her boyfriend brought her a handful of shells. Those bullet shells came from the EuroMaidan protests in Kyiv.
The artist said her work is a sign of respect to her country’s soldiers.
The energy of this project is very dark. I mean, you cannot be cheerful while doing projects like that. But I was not able to stop it, either. This is my sign of respect for all of those Ukrainian soldiers, thanks to whom I still live in the capital of my country, Kyiv, without the war.”
