Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw has organised an event entitled „Dary dla ukrainy”- Gifts for Ukraine with the purpose of donating works by Polish artists to a museum in Ukraine in support of a country suffering Russian military aggression. When I started to think about what kind of artwork could be appropriate for this laudable initiative, I wondered whether any work of art at all was appropriate. You know, people are dying there, and then they receive a package with work of some artists from Poland… Here is the question about the role of art in the face of war. And, also, the question – What is more valuable, the individual person or the symbol? I have developed a series of works using materials useful for survival, such as blankets, wood, soap and canned food. Use of materials in accordance with their original purpose will erase national symbols and break the symbolic value of the work. These works have never been sent to Ukraine.