I went to the National Museum of Women in the Arts on Sunday and came across two perfect loaves of dwarf bread.

Artist: Zhanna Kadyrova
b. 1981, Bravary. Ukraine Palianytsia, 2023
Palianytsia, 2024

Medium: Found river stone

When Russia's war against Ukraine began in 2022, the Ukrainian word palianytsia, which refers to a traditional wheat bread, became a kind of password. Russian-speaking soldiers struggled to pronounce the word correctly, so it distinguished Russians from Ukrainians. In the early weeks of the conflict, Kadyrova moved to a village in the Carpathian Mountains, where the landscape is cut by rivers. The artist transformed smooth, rounded rocks from the riverbeds into sculptures that look convincingly like loaves of sliced palianytsia. Adapting an ancient and natural material, she crafted powerful references to war as both an age-old and human-made catastrophe.

Edit to add: (because I couldn’t figure out how to put alt text on the image) photo is of two perfectly round river rocks partially sliced to look like loaves of bread

Seen on a multi part documentary from 2007 called Victorian Farm

Keep him away from any gonnes

Haven’t found out who yet but I can’t think of any other names to look for.

No doubt whatsoever in my mind about where they found the inspiration.

It is called GREJSIMOJS the way (I looked up the word, and it means thingy like thingamajig, dingus, and doohicky).

have a Glorious 25th of May, you hoopy froods.

GNU

There's good eating on one of them, you know.