The Dance - an illustration I’ve worked on while experimenting with paper cutouts. It was later shown on Rotterdam-based NIFFO Gallery’s exhibition titled From Roots to Leaves. With it, I tried to examine the rose-colored glasses through which we see the life of a soldier in Hungarian folklore. The sleek fashion, the elaborate dances and songs about a glamorous lifestyle that were sung to recruit people from the peasant class into the army are often unquestioned. It is rare in Hungarian society to have a broader reflection as to what that life really entailed if the recruit did not have the safety of a high-class background.

A4, color pencil, paper cutout, crayon.