The name of the project consists of two parts. The first – “The Art of war” – is about the very fact of artistic expression during war and the conditions in a military environment in which art becomes inappropriate, when priorities change dramatically, and familiar social environments and connections are destroyed. But at the same time, the process of creating art gives the prospect of returning to a familiar existence, makes it possible to dream.

The second part in the title – “Rules for caring for a rifle” – is about the visual content of these photos, specific everyday routine actions that soldiers ought to do in order to achieve the goal for all of us in general. For that purpose they need to learn and repeat the same actions and movements every day, bringing them to sophistication, mastery and perfection – whether it’s cooking, or training on the range, or simply cleaning weapons. That is why, in order to show these monotonous, and usually very boring processes, these photos consist of three photos, which either plot-wise or visually flow into each other and create triptychs of stories from the words of single photos.