Pawel Kuczynski has always created illustrations that pull at your heartstrings, but this piece holds a special place. It showcases a monument with soldiers on the top, while a mother and young child are left at the bottom, alone. This piece portrays how we only think of the soldiers that took part in the battle and forget about the ones that were left behind to fend for themselves.
We honor the soldiers for bravely dying on the war front, but we do not even mention the women who were left in charge of their families, as well as society. This piece highlights the high pedestal men are put on, and how women are only seen as caretakers. In many ways it speaks about equality, and how women had to go through much more to get to where they are now.