BOBBY
You my dog are the mirror of my soul
you show me who I'd want to be and how the fire still burns in me
From the beginning of my lifeI was full of energy
I learned how to be dangerous, but also how to control itby fighting sports
something you already have from birth
When you wake up with me
I know you will have a lot of demands from me
like I have from myself and even if you are tired or I am tired
we both want to reach our goal
day after day
night after night
is a project I started with the symbiotic event of the war in Ukraine and my war starting with chemotherapy.
It was a war inside - outside..
I felt there was a need for both of us to bring our story of horror and terror to the world and as they fight with military equipment, I work with mine which are letters, pictures and video's..
What you see is that people out of Ukraine share their story and their lives through letters and pictures with us in the world, at the same time I also show how my battle is synchronic with their battle and I want therefore to give them and myself a voice.
Viktoriia Honcharuk is a very well known person in Ukraine, because she left her job on Wall Street and chance to study at Harvard.
She returned to Ukraine by the beginning of the War, with the intention, I cannot look into the eyes of the youth and say
I gave up your freedom to live a bit longer.
I reached out to her if I was able to paint her and she insisted. After the making of the painting she said it made her cry because her best friend "Lom" was on the painting. It was for me an honourable possibility to make a exhibition about her story and I also presented it at many places.
I am honoured to give a voice to the people in Ukraine who do everything to make that the country
can live in respect, dignity and freedom.
ÀBOUT ME
While it might be normal to label everything. Including ourself, objectifying who whe are to what we are.I like to play with words about what I might be and what I am not. I am for what I am, to be a being that lives in the now, in a time/space environment, being conscious of phenomenons, which attracted to a certrain beauty, beauty within and outer beauty. I like to to do certain things, as long as I can be on the road of thoughts, feelings or between different destinations.
Labels are only for those who need them, I would like you to accept the fact that who we are is not what we are and even what we are, is only a small appearance of what we really are. I admit the easyness to reduce people to qualities and characters but you will, in this world become small, the world will become grey, stripped of all colors, including black and white.
I am for what I am the observed element of your perception, shortly David.
