Wedding Gift 1974
In April 1974 my grandfather Grisha gave this painting to Alik (his nephew) and Olga Yanbulat. All these years we have not been really in touch with them. We met on some occasions but not much.
This summer we met the Yanbulat family all at once when Alike celebrated his 80th anniversary. S.L. Rubinstein once wrote that a person can understand himself through relationships with people, with the world around him. It is hard to describe in words the feelings when you see someone with whom you share genes! Such a peculiar act of self-consciousness.
It is such a peculiar act of self-knowledge, when you begin to see how you are embedded in your big family, where your roots are and what are the cause-and-effect relationships of retrospective events.
To sum it up I can say that in a way art connects people after all.