Luck by Andrii Sahach
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $83000.00 USD
Status: available
What does luck mean to you? Is it the instant thrill of hitting a jackpot, or a quiet miracle—catching a butterfly in a desert beneath the northern sky? In this work, the moonlight serves as a guide, offering just enough radiance to illuminate your path and the world around it. That which seems utterly surreal and unattainable is actually right there beside you. It is all in your hands!
Why collect this work?
A butterfly and an oversized net occupy the same sparse nocturnal field, turning “luck” into an unresolved question of capture, proximity, and missed contact.
- Sahach’s profile describes his “photon dot” approach as a way to connect scientific ideas with memory and perception. Here, the dispersed marks make the scene appear assembled from particles rather than rendered as continuous space.
- In the photograph, the net enters diagonally from the lower right while the butterfly hangs to the left beneath a pale disc. Their separation suspends the anticipated action, making uncertainty more prominent than pursuit or success.
- The documented acrylic medium permits both opaque silhouettes and repeated fine marks. Dense stippling appears to modulate the sky, dunes, wings, and translucent-looking mesh without fully dissolving their simplified shapes.
- Dated 2025 and titled “Luck,” the painting is useful for examining how a familiar chase can resist narrative closure. It holds chance between two readings: fortunate nearness and the threat of possession.
About the Artist
Andrii Sahach
Andrii Sahach is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Kyiv, UA.
Nationality: Ukrainian
My works are meditations on memory, time, and the fragility of existence.
