When I moved to Armenia, I woke up several times at night from a thunderstorm, thinking that an Azerbaijani rocket had arrived. There are amazing emerald mountains in Vanadzor. Looking at them, I wondered how many people were lying there. I left Russia when the war started, and now the war has overtaken me in Armenia. It’s amazing how at such moments you try to hide in some kind of pretentious calm. I often thought of Windows XP wallpaper, where the sun glides over green hills, and also a photo of Gursky’s "Rhine II". The Rhine is one of the largest rivers in Europe, which has witnessed the rapid growth of Western civilization, but all objects have been removed in the photo and now it is an ideal, a nonexistent river-abstraction in timelessness.