Images from “Why is it blue?”, 2021, a reflection on family in post-Soviet Ukraine. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, my father left the army, where he served the military police as a prison guard. He became a priest and later a beekeeper. The connection to an agricultural rather than a military life was his means to find peace. These pictures explore personal relationships, the memory of the past, and the encounter with nature as longing and self-replenishment.