acrylic on canvas, 100*70 CM, 2026 A bird sits on a dead branch. That bird is me. I am neither a hero nor a victim. I do not run away, and I do not have the power to intervene. I cannot stop the catastrophe, nor can I bring back what has already been lost. This work is not about war; it is about the painful distance between seeing and acting. While creating this work, I kept thinking about the words Francisco Goya wrote beneath one of the prints in The Disasters of War: “Yo lo vi.” (“I saw this.”) This work is also an attempt to capture that same moment: the moment when a person stands before catastrophe and can no longer look away. I saw this.