For the last few years Victor and I played a "game;" I told about it in my earlier blog entries. It started when we were talking on Skype about something, and he said that he had a drawing about it. Then next day it happened again, so I said, half-jokingly: "You probably have a drawing on any topic." He took it as a challenge, and since then almost every day I would give him a word, a theme, an idea almost, and he would send me an illustration. He also said that if he didn't have a drawing on a particular topic, he would draw one, but so far this has happened only a few times.
Now, when I've been trying to use Victor's art to encourage people to donate money for his cancer treatment, I am inviting everyone "play" with us. This is what my generous donors have ordered in the last few days:
My colleague's request was: "A Nest." A strange request, isn't it? But it worked for me: I didn't even have to ask Victor about this, I have two nests among my couple hundreds of his drawings:
"Помощь в Гнездовании"
Then a former student gave me a challenging, but interesting task: "Infinity." I had to ask Victor about it, and he sent this to me. What could be a better match?
"Бесконечность"
And another former student requested "Digital Natives," which is the name of his Internet company. Of course, I had to translate it to Russian, and surprisingly, Victor found this illustration as well among his 4,000 + drawings.
"Цифровое Поколение"
Join our game and help the artist!
Recently Victor was diagnosed with sarcoma of the soft tissue of his knee. Until this shocking diagnosis he had thought for several years that it was arthritis. Now his cancer is in stage 3...
So far his treatment included several chemotherapy sessions and the surgery, but now he needs at least $11,000 to start radiotherapy, ASAP. For majority of Ukrainian people these amounts of money are simply incomprehensible, and there is no such thing as medical insurance. I already collected $6,000, but we are running out of time.
Either you are a faithful reader of my blog, or you ended up here just once, by mistake - please contribute whatever you can. Victor really doesn't believe that it is possible to raise such an amount, but I believe that together we can make a difference. As a sign of gratitude, Victor and I would like to offer you a unique opportunity (that I have been enjoying for free for many years!): tell the artist what's on your mind - any word, theme, even abstract concept, - and he most definitely has a drawing on this topic which he will send to you.
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Please, go to the link below and donate!!! And please share this information with anyone who can also help.
