Eduard Isabekyan: "Memory is a very important thing. There is no other nation in the world that needs memory more than the Armenian nation. Because there is no other nation in the world that has left its property, its soil, 99% of everything owned to others. If Igdirtsis forget Igdir, Alashkertsis - Alashker, Vanetsis forget Van, Bayazettsis - Bayazets and etc If they forget that the entire nation never forgot where they are from. The Armenian needs our memory, for him to be able to own whatever his has lost, so as always to remember that he has to bring back whatever he has lost."

The Armenians, who survived the Armenian Genocide, were scattered all over the world thus becoming the bases of creation of the huge Armenian Diaspora. The Armenian artists, Khoren Ter-Harootian among them, who survived the Genocide, living, studying, working and almost inhabiting in the diaspora never stopped keeping the connection with his motherland, raising the genetic connection of being Armenian in the arts, ignoring the fact of living far from the motherland.

Kerasun (Giresun) is an ancient harbor city in Turkey where 200 Armenian families used to inhabit before the Genocide. In 1915 the Armenians were subjected to forced displacement from their inhabitants and most of them fell victims of the Genocide. This work is one of those several works created by the artist-sculptor Ter-Harootian, where the horror of death is revealed, The soul and body of the Armenian nation having seen the tribulation.

Armen Yesayants (PhD in Art History): "The anguish of the entire nation is centered in the art of Haurtyun Kalentz. In the artistic heritage of Kalents the theme of Genocide was depicted both directly and indirectly: Kalentz said: There in the foreign country, Armenian faces seem to be a part of the motherland. For me the portrait is also landscape and much more than that. The portraits are my motherland."

Karen Aghamyan: "The sons of the nation carry the Armenian culture, history and identity of thousand years wherever they go. The survivors of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 were displaced carrying their faith, hope and culture of the past."