Rebecca Rossen

In ‘Gefilte Fish,’ a metaphor for once and future trauma

The walls of artist Yuliya Lanina’s studio in South Austin are covered floor to ceiling with small ink drawings. Rendered in black and white, but tinged (and sometimes splashed or soaked) with red, they depict the effects of Russia’s continuing and brutal war in Ukraine. Smoke, blood, tears. Lanina is a petite woman with a…