This painting was created at the very beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is a historical document expressing the confused, ambiguous thoughts that captured both my mind and the minds of my compatriots. At that time, no one could imagine what this terrible confrontation could result in. Outbursts of conflicting emotions - fear, revenge, horror, indignation, hope, disappointment, bewilderment - this is an approximate list of what people experienced. Vivid feelings, shaking the consciousness, replaced each other with incredible suddenness, like flashes of lightning in bad weather. We were terribly shocked by the events around us and our reaction to them, but not monstrously tired as we are now - more than 3 years later. We did not suspect that it could drag on for so long, did not understand whether we would be able to endure for so long and what we could expect afterwards, what is the best way to act - to stay here or to leave this place forever without thinking, how to adapt to a new life and be able to cope with ourselves. Everyone acted in accordance with their principles and capabilities. Someone could not stand it and committed suicide. Many people discovered unknown qualities in the depths of their subconscious, which they had not even suspected before. This series includes several other artworks similar in approach and unique energy. I can't and don't want to create anything like this anymore. "Complicity" is an expression of one of the aspects of such experiences. This is the forth artwork in a series of similar ones. It was created on the eight day of the war, March 3, 2022. The title expresses the genuine solidarity of people united by a single misfortune. Any differences have lost their relevance. Income level, belonging to a certain social class, profession, worldview, aesthetic preferences, intellectual level - all this has ceased to play any meaning. Everyone became equal, being drawn into the whirlpool of a catastrophic scenario, against their will. This picture is impulsive like a raging element. It was created without preliminary sketches in an affective state. Only after some time can one try to decipher it more rationally. The gray grainy background can be perceived as smoke after an air attack, and as concrete skeletons of destroyed buildings, and as the black and white monotony of the usual predictable life, that irrevocably gone into the past. In turn, the bright spots and lines contrasting with such a background personify the colors of a new life. And although they are positive and life-affirming outside this context, here they create an ominous impression due to the ragged nervousness of the forms painted in these colors. The sparse grid covering the right side of the canvas can be interpreted from one side as a lasso that has been thrown over all of us, trying to catch us like wild animals on safari. From another side, it can be deciphered as a camouflage net used on battlefields. From a third point of view, one can notice that the net resembles a spider web, torn in the center, as if the spider's victim had broken free from captivity. The disorderly spots and flashes, chaotically covering the plane of the painting, associatively express both the explosions from the arrival of ballistic missiles and drones, destroying everything around, and the intensity of emotions experienced by people in the zone of military operations and air attacks. If we go the other way, and perceive the grid as a dilapidated fabric or carpet with dangling scraps of matter, then we can say that the gray joyless background expresses not the monotony of a bygone world, but the colorless despair of war, emerging through the shreds of disintegrating well-being.