It is not revel or  a la  fourchette event...
Today I do not think about your pleasure...
I am bound to each of these works by my share of pain and sympathy...
All of them are under forty years old, the whole generation.
Different occasions and one end - unpunished murderers and indifference...
The idea occurs and develops in a proper environment. Tekla brought me nearer to this theme. Tekla Gambashidze - my close friend. I feel again intimacy with her in the house where there are many enlarged photos of hers. All the time I thought: What can I do for Tekla or many young people who passed away like her, what can I do for them...
Tekla's departure changed my life. I had a great expectation linked with her. my future plans were connected with this person; she took lots of unfulfilled ideas with her. It seems to me that beauty, talent, joy have gone together with Tekla...
I was confused...
Then I felt that this cannot go on like that. It is impossible to live with permanent sense of guilt because I can do something and I do not realize it. I have no other "weapon" but photocamera. I have to struggle with my "weapon" as I can, as I will able to do.
I began to work and understood that this list has no end. I visited families and the feeling of terrible feebleness did not left me: And then? What will be next? Will anything happen? What will change in the lives of these families? - Maybe nothing. Then does that make any sense?
Fortunately, soon I convinced that it is not only my pain or these families' pain, that lots of people think like me, suffer, grieve and look for the time when everything will be otherwise.
Though I do not know when will this time come...
Today's event is my protest against the society, where the murderer can walk at freely.

Irina Abzhandadze. 2003.12.26