Hryvnia - CA1998269

‘Peace for Ukraine’ is an Anti War poster inspired by some of my favorite artists, BANKSY and Shepard Fairey. It’s an original painting created directly on a sheet of 30 uncut Ukrainian Hryvnia (the local currency) which my dad got from a rare currency dealer. The significance of the sunflower in this piece is from a story I heard right at the beginning of the war. The story goes like this: there was a Russian soldier standing in a civilian area. a woman walks up to the soldier and hands him sunflower seeds to put in his pocket, she says that when the he dies on Ukrainian soil, his body will plant a flower patch. thus making the sunflower a universal sign of rebellion in Ukraine. Each of the thirty bills that make up this sheet has been ‘fractionalized’ into individual one-of-one NFTs.