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
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.”
