When Russian troops poured into Ukraine in 2022, continuing the aggression begun eight years earlier when the nation seized strategically located Crimea, 疯客直播 Fe painter Corinna MacNeice鈥檚 reaction was unlike those of most Americans: 鈥淣ot this again.鈥

The horrors of September 11 are the closest most Americans have come to experiencing war and its aftermath. MacNeice grew up in the British capital shortly after the end of World War II and recalls walks with her father, renowned Irish poet Louis MacNeice, and marveling as a little girl at the destruction and cruelty humans are capable of.

鈥淟ondon remained very much a war city, with rubble and destroyed buildings, and it did not recover fast,鈥 she says. 鈥淪o when Russia invaded Ukraine, it was a huge shock, because I never thought that kind of barbaric bombing and rocket throwing would happen again in Europe. It was like being thrown back into the Dark Ages and terrifically upsetting.鈥

疯客直播 Fe artist puts human faces on war in Ukraine

Women of Mariupol II (above), an ink, charcoal, and gouache on paper work created in 2022 by Corinna MacNeice, is on view in an exhibition of the artist鈥檚 work at Here Gallery.

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