Traces of Presence*

Artist Note

By lighting the lights in these houses, I wanted to give them hope that one day, life will return to them again. How much the light in the window means to us now. I used to walk down the street at night, look at the hundreds of lighted windows and think that behind each of those windows there is a story. Behind each of those windows is life! In all its beauty and mystery. Saltivka has always been a special neighborhood for me, because it was the place where I grew up.