Hope by Lina Poluna Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 20 x 20 cm Year: 2026 Price: $500.00 USD Status: available Hope distorts reality — softening pain, sharpening longing. It can blind us, make us hold on to illusions. And yet, even in darkness, it becomes a small source of light. Why collect this work?A single eye dominates the square field, while its dark, elongated tear turns hope into a narrow alignment of illumination and pain rather than simple consolation. Poluna states that she paints emotional states rather than stories, especially tensions between freedom and confinement. The severe crop supports that aim here by withholding the wider body and any clear narrative setting.In the photograph, pale facial planes emerge from black around an upturned blue eye. A star-shaped highlight sits above the vertical pupil and tear, linking a point of brightness to an obstructed gaze.The documented medium is oil on canvas. Its capacity for blending is pertinent to the pictured transitions between cool blue, muted flesh tones, and darkness, although the photograph does not establish the artist’s process or the painting’s exact colour.Catalogued as Hope, dated 2026, and measuring 20 by 20 centimetres, the work condenses a broad abstraction into one bodily sign. It is a focused encounter with hope as both orientation and possible distortion. 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.
