tasty period

The painting’s title stings with double entendre. “Tasty Period” recalls Russia’s cynical rebranding of McDonald’s to “Вкусно — и точка” (“Tasty. Period.”) after Western withdrawal due to the war in Ukraine. Here, that same phrase is weaponized into a menstrual metaphor, asserting that what the state cannot silence—it will consume, appropriate, and digest into patriotic spectacle.