In her collage portrait of @sofiia_holubeva for my series "портрет художника/PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST", wherein I photograph and collage portraits of Ukrainian artists and cultural workers in exile, Sofiia features one of her recent works called "Almost home" (2022):   

"In Uzhgorod, where I spent the first days of the war, every day I wove a military net for the front. It was important not only for our military but also for all those who weaved it – it was a meditative process. The weaving method itself was interesting to me. I knew that somehow I would "weave" it into my artistic practice. I asked the organizer for a small piece of mesh and sign "do not touch" that hung on ready-made meshes, explaining that I would be doing a project. I wove the parental home as a symbol of the native, where you can feel as calm as possible. The prototype of the house is our summer cottage in the Odessa region, which was built by my father. Before I got to Berlin, I crossed a large number of countries: Hungary, Austria, Italy, France, Germany… I wove a house from a small part of the clothes that were given to me in humanitarian centers. I wanted to convey that all of you-all of the people who support us, „you are home, almost home." Now, the sign "do not touch"  is a part of my installation where I insist that my house must not be touched."