DepartmentEurope

Крізь стогін з-під завалів (Аmidst Cries from the Rubble)

NameSculpture

Artist Serhii Polubotko (Ukrainian, born 1962)

CultureUkrainian

Date2024

Place madeClinfon, NEW JERSEY, United States, North America

MediumAluminum missile fragment, steel

Dimensions27 × 9 × 5 in. (68.5801 × 22.86 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Serhii Polubotko, IFAF Collection, FA.2025.14.1

Object numberFA.2025.14.1

Collections

New Acquisitions: The Gift of Folk Art

Description“We collected our ammunition casings from fellow blacksmiths serving and volunteering at the front,” says Polubotko. “One day, a master blacksmith from Rokytne, Yuriy Vyrodov, brought back a Russian missile fragment found at an explosion site. The fragment was fully formed in the shape of a flower head, created by the explosion’s raw force […] This is our current dreadful reality, one where death is a daily routine. Yet life prevails over death, and I transform the enemy’s weapon into plant form—rising from the ashes, sprouting a strange flower of the future.”