Original artwork description:

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"The Eternal City" is a compelling depiction that merges the divine with the ethereal, portraying an angelic figure crowned with a vibrant wreath of forget-me-nots. The subject's half-closed eyes and serene expression evoke a sense of timeless wisdom and inner peace. Set against a soft, pastel backdrop, the figure emanates a gentle yet powerful presence, as if she were the guardian of an ancient and sacred narrative.

The halo and wings are rendered with a simplicity that resonates with spiritual iconography, suggesting a connection to the heavenly realm. The artwork's muted color palette, with its subtle interplay of blush, cream, and blue tones, gives it a dreamlike quality, inviting contemplation. "The Eternal City" is not just a visual piece; it is an invitation to explore the depths of our own connection to the mystical and the eternal stories that shape our understanding of the universe.

Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals.

Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home.

Here is what Daria herself says about her works

I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.

Materials used:

Oil, Acrylic

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