Page 1: Для нас найстрашніше залізо – не ракети, літаки, танки, а кайдани. Не окопи, а окови. (For us, the most terrible iron is not missiles, aircraft and tanks, but shackles. Not trenches but fetters)

Page 2: Для них знищувати нас це як важкий наркотик, від якого самі вони вже не можуть відмовитися (For them destroying us is like a heavy drug, and now they aren't able to quit it by themselves)

Okay, this is a hard one. Basically it was inspired by two art exhibitions I visited.

The first one showed the works of calligraph Oleksiy Chekal and I was so so so inspired by different lettering compositions he made that I wanted to do something similar (it didn't even come close to what he does in the end but I tried). and while thinking about what would I what to write I saw a post by Volodimir Zelenskiy with a phrase you see on the first page and... Well, it hit hard, so here we are

Later that week I went to an exhibition of works of artists, illustrators, graphic designers and other creators from Kherson (both those who managed to evacuate and those who are still there) and it hit even harder. (I cried. A lot.) There was a photograpger, whose only reminder from home was a fragment of door, "thank you I'm fine" written over and over (the creator was not in fact fine), bombed crop fields, the creations of an artist who had nightmares about war years before it started, which then came to life. Here is the artical about this exhibition if you want to google translate the page

And one of the creators presented was Yulia Danilevska, and illustrated extracts from her blog. One of the posts there was the phrase you can see on the second page. And well, that was a perfect addition to my first lettering.