After the 44-day war, Alyona Sargsyan, displaced from Mets
\nTagher village of Hadrut District, left her studio full of paints, unfinished
\npaintings and dreams about her native village. <\/p>\n
“Our days in the village were quite busy. We used to gather After the end of the war, Alyona’s family did not return to “We used to go out of town with students to learn to draw <\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n Alyona set up her business during the blockade, when “My works are mostly on the Artsakh theme. I accept Now being far from Artsakh, Alyona has decided to continue <\/p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the 44-day war, Alyona Sargsyan, displaced from Mets Tagher village of Hadrut District, left her studio full of paints, unfinished paintings and dreams about her native village. “Our days in the village were quite busy. We used to gather in our neighborhood every day, to play and argue. Then, startled by our mothers’ voices, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-artsakh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin our neighborhood every day, to play and argue. Then, startled by our
\nmothers’ voices, we ran home to do our homework,” she says.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nArtsakh. It was only her, who went back and continued her studies at Artsakh
\nState University.<\/p>\n
\nevery detail of nature with our professors. I like drawing very much and try to
\ndraw beautifully. My skill has become a source of income for me. At first, I
\nreceived orders for portraits, then I came to paint on tote bags and T-shirts,”
\nAlyona says.
\nstarting a business seemed somewhat unrealistic. She used to walk from one end
\nof the city to the other to find paints, T-shirts and tote bags. Now she has
\neverything she needs; only customers are few.<\/p>\n
\nindividual orders on other themes as well, but when I design something on my
\nown, my focus is Artsakh, that gives me scope for creativity,” she says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\nworking, to start a family and try to live in Armenia until she will be able to
\nreturn home, Artsakh.