Bomb shelter in Mariupol, Stereo picture, Leisure 2022

This is a pen and ink drawing titled, Bomb shelter in Mariupol, Stereo picture, Leisure, by Danil Nemirovsky. Look at the way he's built this whole scene with these intricate hatching marks. It's like he's feeling his way through the space, line by line, figuring out what he wants to keep, what to bury in shadow. I wonder what it was like for Nemirovsky to sit with this scene, translating the tension and the boredom of waiting into a language of dense marks. Are those card games? I can imagine the room, stuffy and close, and the scratch, scratch, scratching of his pen, bringing it all to life on the page. This feels reminiscent of artists like Raymond Pettibon, who also use drawing to capture something raw and immediate. There's a conversation happening here, across time and space, about how we make sense of the world through mark-making. And how each mark, each decision, is a way of not only representing, but of understanding and feeling.