An India ink drawing made in silence during the « shared loneliness » session — a support group where one may not interrupt, only draw what rises while another speaks. Artem traced overlapping silhouettes seated on an imaginary bench in Trinity Park, shoulders almost joined but faces turned toward different horizons.

Ink density shifts like collective breathing: deep blacks where someone mentioned a departed loved one, grey washes where conversation returned to daily life — to bread still warm in the morning, to tram 12 screeching up Andriyivsky climb. Controlled ink drops, deliberately left to dry as stylised tears on the right edge of the sheet.

Second movement: cross-hatching that forms a Podil brick wall texture, dark windows and a single one lit in warm yellow — a sign that one is not alone even when it feels so. The work refuses pathos: it documents civic fatigue, urban loneliness shared in a generator-heated basement between two alerts. Against Stones reads here an intimate map of the quarter and the soul.