when people came out of the forest there was nothing (2018) is informed by an introverted, acquired awareness of WWII as an indirect afterimage amassed from museums, stories, fictional literature, and cinema. The works in this exhibition are based on selections of landscape backgrounds from found photographic documentation of the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. They are close studies of low-resolution, black and white files, translated into an accumulation of marks, surface, and atmosphere. The found images document instances of historical events and their landscape backgrounds were not intended to be the focus; the selected fragments on which the drawings are based appear to be distant and incomplete.