Hel had fallen hard for the artist;
the новый боевик heralding
a cautiously empty renaissance
of oblique ideation; conceptual
arriving late to postpostsoviet
faux bohemian culture; Pop Art
is banned,  making it coveted;
Eli is feted by European royalty
for his enormous muddy smears;
Hel getting invited to write her
memoirs of life w/ Eli Simple:
avant-garde painter & movie star