Stitched into textiles and immortalized in folklore, the dove has long been embedded within Ukrainian cultural tradition – collecting new significance in the present climate as a symbol of peace amid conflict. Shifting into its urban centers with the advance of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s historic dove-keeping tradition transmuted, as self-made dovecotes emerged across the streets of Kyiv – once attached to every residential block, yet now largely empty or home to pigeons, existing as relics of a slower pace of life before the USSR collapsed, derelict and given to decay...