Aph Russia Tank Tops

aph russia

Sometimes dressing up as your rival helps you think like them.

Illustration in watercolour and fine liner pen. The year is 1992. Shady sadist, chain-smoking Ivan Braginsky is ex-KGB, now a novelist, and finds himself clinging to the facets of Soviet culture which formed the backdrop to his youth, and now age 43 still wears a plastic yellow Cheburashka watch. Wearing a chain is his borzoi named Baba Yaga, often cuddling into Ivan’s blood-crusty 1930s bear-fur coat or his moth-eaten ‘leisure wear’ tracksuits; for as strong as Ivan’s nostalgia is his well-learned frugality.