The saddest fact of each and every modern military conflicts is that the worst casualties of such are children, and to make things even worse, these casualties usually take places after the military conflicts are over. It is them, the children living in the areas of all these recent military conflicts, who have gotten exposed to so called left overs of unexploded ammunition scattered on the ground, who due to their natural childish curiosity bring them to the proximity and or create temptations to pick those strange shiny objects off the ground. Unfortunately those very same actions trigger mechanism in these ammunition which leads to tremendous physical traumas, the worst, death.

This is the reason this series of paintings is called, "The Saddest Paintings in the World," for with these paintings the very same items, left over ammunition, i.e., unexploded land mines and or cluster bomblets, and their physicality, size, in relation to hands holding them had been depicted. What makes the subject of matter even more difficult is the hideousness of the paradox that such small items as land mines and, especially, cluster bomblets can cause such traumatic consequences upon a physical body.