A standard-bearer without an army, Vlas Kuzma makes his own landing in Normandy. The place where liberation began becomes a stage for inner warfare. The shore once chosen for the first blow against fascism becomes a site of another confrontation — silent and personal.

He raises a white canvas on a pole, declaring it the New Russian Flag. This is a demarche of conscience, an act of resistance and self-exile — a step outside of identity, a refusal to remain a fragment of a war-driven regime.

"My art is simultaneously my standard, my painting, and my war-banner. My inner cry against the absence of humanity — a burial shroud for tyrants and their followers."

The gesture of raising a blank flag recalls the avant-garde’s dream of the tabula rasa — the empty surface as a promise of renewal. Yet here, the void is not utopian but ethical: a refusal to carry the war-tainted symbols of the Russian state.

This white is not blank. It is a New Flag held out to every Russian citizen — a call to stop this war before it erases all that is human.

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