"Four years ago, during the seemingly never-ending funeral processions that saw casket after casket float out on a sea of cellphone lights on Independence Square while thousands chanted “heroes never die” in unison, Myth was in France, part of the Ukrainian ex-pat community slowly coming to the realization that he could not sing freely on European stages while his countrymen were fighting back home. I’m not sure how much distance there actually is between hero and Myth, but I’m grateful for the opportunity to reflect on it again here in Toronto, where those chants that once rattled our eardrums and shook our perceptions of ourselves and our fates seem more distant every day. (2018)"