While working on this project I felt it needed something more. Katya Chomitzky, a friend of mine, had assisted in evacuations from Ukraine and her amazing stories were a great inspiration to the piece.
This small apartment was the man’s home, a place of solace and comfort that was stolen from him. I decided to focus on food, as it is a universal cultural component. Katya was kind enough to share one of her grandmother’s hand-written recipes with me. The recipe was for cabbage dumplings, a common comfort food in Ukraine. I imagine it is something the man would have eaten in this apartment.