The Australian artist Peter Seaton, often known as CTO, didn’t anticipate a backlash after portray an enormous mural in Melbourne displaying Ukrainian and Russian troopers hugging. However the work, Peace Earlier than Items, sparked a furore, with some commentators dubbing the piece “Russian propaganda”. Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, pitched in, saying it was “totally offensive to all Ukrainians”, in response to the BBC. The artist tells us, although, that the mural “doesn’t feed into any propaganda narrative as Russia desires to destroy the Ukrainian army, who’re allegedly Nazis. My work depicts a sharing of widespread humanity in the identical vein of the Christmas truce of 1914 in World Battle One between the Germans and the Brits.” All just isn’t misplaced, although. Seaton is promoting NFTs (non-fungible tokens) of the work, and the cash raised will probably be donated to charity, he says.
