Artwork Commemorates 40th Anniversary of Chornobyl
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Many of us remember where we were when, on April 26, 1986, the Chornobyl nuclear disaster shook the world. Eleven years later I was commissioned by the art gallery of Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Education Centre in Winnipeg to create 12 backlit digital images e to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the disaster. The exhibit was created in a collage style and used as a fundraiser for children victims of the disaster.
With the help of the late Larissa Tolchinsky, the librarian at Oseredok, I was able to conduct research on the disaster and glean images and quotes that I used in the exhibit. Here are a few of the images:
