Blessed by Lina Poluna Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: oil on canvas panel Dimensions: 15 x 13 cm Year: 2025 Price: $250.00 USD Status: available This painting is about sacrifice — not as something tragic, but as a conscious choice. Sometimes we give up parts of ourselves to become who we truly are. I wanted to show that pain can carry meaning and even become a blessing. The lamb here isn't just a symbol of suffering, but of inner strength and purity that remains even through pain. Why collect this work?A small hexagonal field isolates a wounded lamb beneath a sharp white star, turning sacrifice into a compact image where radiance and bodily damage remain deliberately unresolved. Poluna states that she paints emotional states rather than stories. Here, the animal functions less as a narrative character than as a concentrated bearer of vulnerability, while the artist’s account identifies sacrifice as a conscious, potentially transformative choice.The photograph shows a pale, suspended lamb against black, with a dark opening across its flank and thin red trails descending toward a separate red smear. The star above establishes a severe vertical axis, linking illumination to injury without confirming whether it signals blessing, witness, or judgment.The documented oil on canvas panel permits opaque darkness alongside fine light and red accents. At 15 by 13 cm, the shaped support compresses these contrasts into an intimate, emblem-like format rather than an expansive scene.This work merits encounter as a contemporary revision of sacrificial imagery: purity is not preserved by avoiding harm, but pictured as persisting within it. Its ambiguity tests the artist’s stated claim that pain can carry meaning without making suffering simply redemptive. About the ArtistLina Poluna Lina Poluna is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Tbilisi, GE. Nationality: Russian My work exists in the space between freedom and confinement where protection turns into isolation and silence grows heavier than words.
