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I'm Ukrainian, and I grew up proud of the people who shaped our culture, so I went looking for one of them: Heorhiy Narbut, whose Ukrainian Alphabet (1917–1919) I found on Wikimedia Commons.
I turned seven of its letter pages, cropped to the illustrations only, into a Recraft Style and asked his dense ink hatching to draw things he never could: drones, scooters, video calls and a coffee pouring robot.
The result, Alphabet of the Cossack Mystic, is a lost museum catalog from an alternative history: every letter has a three word caption, in Narbut's manner, and a handmade invention of wood, bone, clay, brass and leather.
Each Cossack wears a vyshyvanka, sharovary and sash, with a scalp-lock and moustache, so the Ukrainian heritage is in every detail.
Three pages answer Narbut's originals directly: В, З and О.
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