July 1: Vasylovych found water in the trench and is digging a well

July 1: Vasylovych found water in the trench and is digging a well

Next to the “Dead end” sign by building 107, where Beam Center operates from

With Marianna, 2-3pm

The text is from a r/ukraine Reddit post

Today is Marianna’s last day at Beam Center. As an artist and a project manager for my Tree Chuang project with Beam, she is the most amazing person to work with and learn from— Marianna did the impossible task of sorting through my spontaneous  and chaotic brain and developing a process to realize the ambitious project in a limited time frame.

We only had 30 mins on the text, so I chose the space right next to Beam. The text comes from a r/ukraine Reddit post, of a Ukrainian soldier finding water in the trench and digging a well right there in the battlefield. It is a clip that I have watched several times and it brings me hope. Even the English translation is simple yet powerful. With lineage from both sides of the war, Mariann has been deeply affected by the conflict, and I hope this description of resilience can bring her some form of hope as well.

The original Reddit post has been deleted by some is still available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQFXD5D302g. The original post comes from @miha________ on TikTok.