my project is about the
ABOUT
PERCEPTION OF TIME
how it changes when you have to leave everything behind all of a sudden, your home and your life.
Like many Ukrainians, I left my home with my son in February 2022. Many of us scattered to different corners of the world; 79,615 Ukrainians live in Austria alone.
There was no opportunity to say goodbye to home, to work ... from the already PAST life in which we were a teacher, doctor, biologist, artist or maybe a lawyer.... we simply became a refugee. The sense of time has changed dramatically, there is a feeling of a bubble and a vacuum in which there is no time.
The war has transported us all into a different reality for an uncertain period of time. And many Ukrainians will agree that the feeling of being abroad has changed.
TIME STOOD STILL
And I started thinking about how I could bring that feeling back so that I could live here and now ...
It was to be a real journey home.
My time machine was supposed to be a ticket home ... a ticket that I could always use to go back. Which would have no time limit and would always work (which is why the ticket is made of porcelain).
Every day, a train to Kyiv departs punctually at 17:30 from platform 11 of Vienna Central Station. But buying a ticket for this train is another challenge.
In February 2023, I was able to get a ticket and go back. It's impossible to describe all my feelings, but yes - it worked!
There are so many questions:
There are so many questions:
They can be bought at one o'clock in the morning, when ticket sales start. They sell out very quickly. And believe me, they are expensive!
Can I go home yet?
Is it safe enough there?
Is it perhaps better to wait?
If I want to go back at some point, why should I learn the language and try to develop where I am?
What if it takes many years? Then perhaps you should still look for your self-realisation here?
Questions you can't find answers to. Someone has this feeling of insecurity, as if you can't live your life, you can only wait.
there is only one train that departs from Vienna Central Station, daily at 17:30, platform 11...
This art project allows you to understand that you are not alone.
Each of us has our own story, someone will buy a ticket to Ukraine, someone will decide to stay, but we are all united by this experience, a common home and a big heart.
If this story is also about you or you are interested in the above, please write in the chat of the website.
Let's stand together, because there are already too many wars!
If this story is also about you or you are interested in the above, please write in the chat of the website.
Let's stand together, because there are already too many wars!
In the midst of this flow of thoughts and often tears, sometimes you just want to buy that TICKET HOME, but there is no real ticket to the past ...
anastasiia
my project is about the
ABOUT
PERCEPTION OF TIME
how it changes when you have to leave everything behind all of a sudden, your home and your life.
Like many Ukrainians, I left my home with my son in February 2022. Many of us scattered to different corners of the world; 79,615 Ukrainians live in Austria alone.
There was no opportunity to say goodbye to home, to work ... from the already PAST life in which we were a teacher, doctor, biologist, artist or maybe a lawyer.... we simply became a refugee. The sense of time has changed dramatically, there is a feeling of a bubble and a vacuum in which there is no time.
The war has transported us all into a different reality for an uncertain period of time. And many Ukrainians will agree that the feeling of being abroad has changed.
TIME STOOD STILL
And I started thinking about how I could bring that feeling back so that I could live here and now ...
It was to be a real journey home.
My time machine was supposed to be a ticket home ... a ticket that I could always use to go back. Which would have no time limit and would always work (which is why the ticket is made of porcelain).
Every day, a train to Kyiv departs punctually at 17:30 from platform 11 of Vienna Central Station. But buying a ticket for this train is another challenge.
In February 2023, I was able to get a ticket and go back. It's impossible to describe all my feelings, but yes - it worked!
There are so many questions:
There are so many questions:
They can be bought at one o'clock in the morning, when ticket sales start. They sell out very quickly. And believe me, they are expensive!
Can I go home yet?
Is it safe enough there?
Is it perhaps better to wait?
If I want to go back at some point, why should I learn the language and try to develop where I am?
What if it takes many years?
Then perhaps you should still look for your self-realisation here?
Questions you can't find answers to. Someone has this feeling of insecurity, as if you can't live your life, you can only wait.
... there is only one train that departs from Vienna Central Station, daily at 17:30, platform 11...
This art project allows you to understand that you are not alone.
Each of us has our own story, someone will buy a ticket to Ukraine, someone will decide to stay, but we are all united by this experience, a common home and a big heart.
If this story is also about you or you are interested in the above, please write in the chat of the website.
Let's stand together, because there are already too many wars!
If this story is also about you or you are interested in the above, please write in the chat of the website.
Let's stand together, because there are already too many wars!
In the midst of this flow of thoughts and often tears, sometimes you just want to buy that TICKET HOME, but there is no real ticket to the past
Anastasiia