Victor Petrov is a nuclear physicist, a former employee of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a resident of Pripyat, an artist by vocation.
After graduating from Kiev State University in theoretical nuclear physics Petrov worked at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for 16 years. He commissioned all power units for the station, starting with the first one. After the accident on Chernobyl station Petrov participated in the liquidation from 1986 till 1991.

Petrov says about the painting: "The other title of the painting is "Not subject to time “. I use symbols to show that everything created by human is absorbing by the vortex of time. Only human soul releases the shackles of materiality and seeks to break out of this vortex. But the human soul is in the material body and should not flee in panic from the material world. She must develop in this world, and only after reaching the peak of its development the soul should leave the material world. Our technocratic civilization is an inquisition that destroys humanity. Water has been poisoned everywhere. When water and life are synonymous. We drink a cocktail of chemicals, heavy metals and radionuclides, diluted with water. The air in the cities are in endless smog. We are eating food full of nitrates and preservatives. Herbicides used in agriculture have been found in the liver of penguins in Antarctic. Scientists are talking about the growing extinction of living organisms. We are loosing thousands of species a year. This is a chain reaction of extinction! ”

Painting from the collection of National Chornobyl Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine