One Work: The Moscow Scream

Ukraine's missile hit

Moscow's oil refinery

Panic, screams on tape

Author's note: This was written for Raymond Taylor's One Work challenge. As I can't avoid the political because Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is defining my life, I immediately thought of the meme that I came across so many times after Ukraine hit an oil refinery near Moscow with its new Flamingo missile. Here's the original photograph of the event the meme is referring to:

Another connection I made from Raymond's challenge is to the art of Alesha Stupin, a dissident political cartoonist who uses the Scream theme a lot in his cartoons. This one below refers to the Kerch (Black Sea) environmental disaster in Russia in 2024, when an oil spill was so bad oil literally got into people's houses.

Or this one from summer 2024, when Ukrainian drones started to reach Crimea's military oil supply chain and scattered the people who were taking vacations on Crimean beaches:

And for the third, a more recent example of Trump's war in Iran:

Raymond in his One Work challenge stated that The Scream is misunderstood from its original intent. Munch himself explained that this is a painting of self-reflection and empathy, a realization of the horror resulting from human impact on the environment we are killing. I think the value of this painting is that it's so open to interpretation that you can apply it to any man-made disaster, including wars.

Raymond's challenge is here: