I have always been fascinated by the mystical painting "The Dog" by Francisco Goya. With its economy and incredible power. I wondered how else I could portray it. Then came the war in Ukraine and my trip to Lviv. A train full of migrants, mainly women with small children. And the war in Gaza. And the war in... And so instead of a dog, a little desperate and looking for himself alone in the world (just as the deaf and lonely Goya looked for himself in a world full of twists and turns and the civil war in Spain), I created "dog beasts". Furious, barking, tearing, with two rows of bared fangs, saliva around their wide-open muzzles. Killer dogs, monster dogs, beast dogs. Dogs that are so similar to people in their "need" to destroy, murder, rape, burn, destroy. When will it ever end? And will it ever end? We are emotional beings capable of loving others, animals, nature, creating beautiful things, protecting the weak, helping the sick. But what can we become in the face of fear, the “enemy”. Where we come from and where we are going, that is the eternal question of our being.
To create the painting, I used the classic technique of acrylic and charcoal on canvas. The technique was supplemented with ash as a symbol of destructive war fires and steel dust as a symbol of military equipment, armor, murderous bullets and shrapnel.
