Existing comment:
Field of Wheat:
Kurylas Design Selected
Larysa Kurylas's proposal offered an intentional space to support both personal reflection and public remembrance of the Holodomor. "Field of Wheat," a 30-foot bronze bas-relief, faces the plaza, which is etched with a pattern inspired by Ukrainian textiles. The memorial's iconography conveys the confiscation of food that led to mass starvation and the purposeful destruction of Ukrainian culture; the use of bronze and granite suggests permanence and resilience. The design enables a broader meditation on the use of hunger as a weapon; the memorial's inscription, however, is unequivocal in labeling the Holodomor a genocide and identifying Stalin's totalitarian regime as responsible.
Reviewers noted the "engaging quality of fading wheat" and the "accessible concept." They praised the "intimate" and "restrained" design, the "elegant site plan," and "appropriate primary and secondary sides" -- features that were carefully protected and honed in the journey from concept to built form. |