Documentation remains a core theme in most of my art practice, in this particular project too , it isn't any different. This artist book project,documents events taking place thousands of miles away, based on my emotional reaction and empathy to the struggles of ordinary people like us facing a brutal war .

Many of us had never heard of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol before this year. At least I hadn’t.
But in recent days, the city and its people remain the focus of international attention during Russia’s recent attack on Ukraine.
Viktoria Voskresova lived in Mariupol. She was a hairdresser and lived with her mother , a cat and a geranium plant.

Far away from the city of Mariupol, in the safety of our homes, I read about her city and her life in reports filed by my colleague who was present  inside Ukraine.

I connected to Viktoria through her social media posts and got a brief glimpse into her life as she lived through most of the blockade of Mariupol by Russian forces, until her mother and she reluctantly managed to leave the city in March 2022.

I reached out to her to find out how she was and through our conversations that we continued on social media, I got a first-hand account of her struggle .

This is an effort to describe Viktoria’s struggle  in her own words , through the difficult and scary months of February and March 2022