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Oil on linen.
50 x 80 cm.

The woods near Goygol, filled with dense fog. Many people in the former border areas around Ganja still live in a war-time state of fear and uncertainty. A resident of a nearby village chased away our prying cameras, while Goygol hid itself in a cloud, away from our gaze. I learned how a desperate man once tried to kill the corrupt former mayor of Ganja, stories of Nizami‘s head being stolen by the Russians, and of the current flight of creatives and intellectuals away from Ganja. The negative spaces in the branches carve out the sinister forms of predatory animals and headless poets.

Original is in a black floater frame.