sunflowers, 2025

Dmitry Koldyaev, engineer

Tezcatlipoca — translated as the "Smoking Mirror" — was a deity of the later Maya and Aztecs. Through this mirror, he observed the doings of humans on earth.
There’s also a saying: “And how do they look themselves in the mirror every morning?” Now, during the era of wars, I hear it more often than ever in my mother tongue.
The speaker is implying immoral behaviour and appealing to conscience.
Mirror = a tool for moral conscience. A symbolic equation. One that more often fails than functions.
Nevertheless, sunflower is a symbol of zest for life and optimism. And a symbol of Ukraine as well, which has been bleeding in war for the third year.