Hakob Hakobyan expressed the secret attack of the evil spirit on the peaceful, defenseless creature by two symbols: black cat and white dove. As it happened in 1915 when the Armenians were subjected to massacre by the Ottoman Empire, the series of these barbaric acts continue to these day, such as the murder of the famous Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink by the Turkish nationalist.

Hrant Dink said: "There are some Turkish people who don’t admit that fact that their ancestors executed Genocide. But, if we look, we’ll understand that these people leave a false impression of kind and pleasant people… However, why can’t they admit the fact of Genocide? It’s because, they know that Genocide is a bad thing and they would have never wish to do that and that’s why they can’t believe that their ancestors could have done anything like that."

Annette Gurdjian: "The piece is painted over photographs of my father's family planting a tree at their first home in the United States after arriving from Turkey. The painting symbolizes the pain of leaving one's ancestral home juxtaposed with the symbol of setting roots in a new and different land."

Arthur Sarkissian: "Art is a multilayered game of mind and soul. and the best way to justify the existence of the individual. Art is an opportunity for me to reevaluate and reanimate the old and the new, the chronology and the contemporary. In this painting I wanted to create a symbolic poem through the old and new images, bridges of the sculpures of the cities."

Sargis Khachatryan has created series of painting in the theme of the Armenian exiles. This painting belongs to those series as well. Suffered and worried faces, movement, that look as if frozen, silence and question mark is stamped on their face that is transmitted through the painting. What will be the fate of the Armenian nation.

In 1924 in Vienna that was a catalog published with the artists works where he was described as "The singer of the Armenian sorrow".