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🙏 Gratitude
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Thanks to neighbours

by NadiaC

City : Kyiv
Format : A5
Status: : Available
Creative Points: : 60
Time spent (minutes) : 25 min
Created at : 28/11/2025
Calligraphy on kraft — thanks to neighbours. Nadia wrote dictated phrases in tall irregular letters. Coffee and damp traces. Functional daily gratitude in a shared stairwell.
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Artist Stories

Thank you for the water from yesterday.

Each neighbor wrote a sentence—dictated, not made up. “Thank you for listening without advice.” “Дякую за воду вчора.” The kraft paper smelled of coffee and the dampness of the landing; that was intentional. Staircase solidarity, not overt.

Calligraphy solidarity

Nadia acted as a collective scribe. Functional work — daily gratitude.

Associated Media

Black ink calligraphy kraft paper tall irregular letters Ukrainian French thanks neighbours coffee stains damp, staircase solidarity, flat documentation.

Neighbours dictating thank-you phrases in Podil stairwell, scribe writing, documentary humanitarian.

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