Blackout (2024) Painting by Bogdan Shiptenko

Last year, in the fall, in October and November, my friends and I went out to the yard earlier than usual because there was no electricity. The light was taken away by russian missiles that hit the power grid and thermal power plants. The russians wanted to leave Ukrainians without heat and light.

But we survived this period and the winter. Of course, these are not very pleasant memories when you wake up and the power goes out for four hours three or four times a day. We had a schedule that indicated the addresses in which houses would not have electricity during a certain period. We adapted to this, but it disrupted the work schedule, the biological schedule, etc. After all, as soon as the power was turned on, everyone immediately recharged everything, did things that could not be postponed.

That's why I used to try to do things when there was light.
So, I painted orders, paintings that were supposed to be ready earlier, but because of the power outage, I painted for a long time. Even with the phone lights on and the lights connected from the power bank, the ring lamp helped me paint when there was no light. In the spring, I also noticed that my eyesight had deteriorated a bit because I was painting in the dark with the flashlights on. I was trying to fulfill orders when there was no light.

Painting by candlelight may be romantic, but not when you have a blackout in your country. It is magical only when there is light, and you turn it off at random and light candles to create a special atmosphere.

Of course, there was no connection, not even a single one, not to mention the Internet.
But I remember when my friends and I would visit each other like in childhood, right at home, to call each other outside and spend time together. Since we couldn't call, we knocked on each other's doors and gathered the whole company in a chain reaction.
Back then, the neighborhood was completely dark, with only the headlights of passing cars and some shops powered by gasoline generators shining. There were also flickering cell phones in people's hands, small smartphone lights like those at a concert, but the atmosphere was not as bright as at a concert.

So when we came home in the evening or at night, just in time for the curfew, we sat at home and waited for the power plant or power lines to be repaired. When the light came on in the apartment, it was real magic, an act that made us proud of Ukrainian people, and specifically of the profession of electricians. During the blackout, we began to appreciate these people especially, we were proud of them.
Populist T-shirts and merchandise with electricians appeared.

That's why this painting depicts power lines, cables, dark, black, clear, against a gray sky, which conveys the mood of blackout, the mood of hope for light and warmth.

•MORE DETAILS•
Painting size: 24x28 inches (60x70 centimeters)
Materials: Stretched Canvas, Acrylic Paints, Palette, Brushes
Artwork unframed
Signed painting

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