«When Two Fires Became One»

Sculptural composition

Materials:

steel, brass, wood, PLA plastic (FDM 3D printing).

№ Н-23-06-147/2

At the center of the composition are crossed a Hutsul bartka and a tomahawk — two symbols born in different cultures yet united by a shared meaning: the defense of freedom.

The Hutsul bartka emerges as an image of strength carved from the stone of the Carpathians. Its form carries the movement of mountain winds, the memory of tradition, and inner resilience. It embodies a people who do not submit, who hold their land not for domination, but for truth.

The tomahawk reveals another dimension of this strength — measured, precise, and directed. Its image holds the experience of struggle shaped over generations and a will that does not fade. It resonates as a sign of support — a force that stands alongside and acts together.

These two forms create a single vertical axis — not of confrontation, but of convergence. Two fires — of freedom and of justice — merge into one, becoming stronger together.

The base of the composition consists of deformed fragments of modern Russian weaponry: an element of the casing of the inertial navigation system block of a Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile, shot down by the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine in December 2022, and a plug of the antenna system from a downed 3M-14 Kalibr (SS-N-27 Sizzler) cruise missile in the Kyiv region in April 2022.

What was meant to bring destruction becomes the foundation. That which carried death is transformed into a pedestal for the force that stops it.