It's a Mad World

"If you feel like loosing your mind right now - you are absolutely sane. If you feel that everything is normal or even great - you are absolutely insane!"

This project is the result of my reflections about the insane world in which we live today.

About the offensive of totalitarism on freedom.

About lies, brainwashing and propaganda.

About pain, cruelty, hatred and indifference.

About insecurity and fear.

About illusions and broken dreams that the good is not always victorious over the evil.

And yet, against the extreme cruelty and callousness of ones, stands the incredible bravery, dignity, compassion and humanity of others.

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"Sophia of Kiev - Raped, but Unbroken" - This work is dedicated to the women of Bucha. Their bodies were violated, but their spirits were not broken. In the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev - there is a wall with a mosaic icon of Virgin Mary, which no invader succeded to destroy in any of the wars for 800 years. This place has the symbolic name "Indestructible Wall".

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"It's Good to be King" - eternal story of a naked king, guarding his domain... "It's good to be king, if just for a while, To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile, It's good to get high and never come down, It's good to be king of your own little town" - Tom Petty

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"Alpha" - Fight for being an Alpha. No matter what, even at the end of the world or on solitary island... Inspired by what is happening in the world today - lust for power, cruelty and wars...

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"Ode to Joy" - Sometimes I think that the world around us is a big mental institution and I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

© Dina Bova - "Allegory of Optimism" - Poor, but not broken.
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"Allegory of Optimism" - Poor, but not broken.

© Dina Bova - The Return
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The Return

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"At Home Among Strangers" - Allegorical portrait depicting not a single man, but a whole layer of intellectuals of modern Russia. Feeling stranger at home, unable to speak his mind, surrounded by indifference or hostility.

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"Angry Birds" - Allegorical story about the freedom of expression, that one people interpret as a freedome to curse and crap on other people's heads...

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"Escape" - About that every person once in his life wants to feel like a child again and escape his adulthood. Wants to feel safe, and escape the madness of today's reality

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