Anna Konrad portrays a face peering through the Bila Tserkva crochet balaclava’s mesh on black paper, wide eyes piercing the lattice while her neck and shoulders dissolve into a starry web of white lines. The balaclava, handmade 100% cotton powder by Ukrainian women artisans amid war, honors Bila Tserkva’s defiant spirit, site near Kyiv where a Russian Il-76 fell in Vasylkiv’s battle. This version’s cosmic freckles evoke hidden universes behind armor, captured in her expressive form of art work .

Measurements: 30 × 44 cm.  

Paper: Cartolina Nettuno Natural, 215 g/m² (pure cellulose, fiber-sized, felt-marked both sides, mass-tinted). 

About the Artist

Anna Konrad is a German leisure artist studying fashion design in Berlin. Drawing has been a constant in her life since childhood; since 2013, she’s pursued it consciously alongside other creative outlets like jewelry-making to channel feelings, document daily experiences and express her personality. Memories and music fuel her greatest inspirations, manifesting in diverse media from traditional drawing and collage to digital, though she favors mixed media on paper. Her style flexes with mood and project,typically comic-like or stylized realistic, and draws from manga, animated series, video games and school art lessons.

Donation

40% of the sale proceeds will be donated to Voices of Children, a Ukrainian charitable foundation providing psychological support, rehabilitation, art therapy and humanitarian aid to children impacted by war