Since December 12, 2022 Azerbaijan has blocked the only road that connects Artsakh to Armenia and the rest of the world. 120,000 people do not have access to essential goods such as food, medicine, gas, or the ability to receive life saving treatments elsewhere. Azerbaijan has also routinely cut power to Artsakh in freezing temperatures leaving people without a heat source, cut off the internet and continues to hold the people of Artsakh hostage.

100% of the sales of these patches is being currently being donated to All for Armenia

Four color screen print on Stonehenge paper

This piece is of a poppy, a national symbol with many varieties being native to the ancestral lands of Armenia, with the colors of the flag of Armenia & Artsakh. I made the original illustration of this poppy years ago, and it was bordered by encircling wolves. At the time it was an ode to ancestors – the poppy for my Nana on my mother’s side, the wolves for my grandfather on my father’s side who introduced me to my life-long love of the creatures when I was very small. With the rise of the ultra-nationalist and fascist group “the Grey Wolves” who recently became notorious for organizing “Hunt for Armenians” marches in France and for vandalizing the Armenian Genocide memorial outside Lyon with their own slogans and references to Turkish President Erdogan, the feeling when looking at the piece had changed. Please continue to speak up, educate, organize and donate.