Seared by Lina Poluna Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: oil on canvas panel Dimensions: 20 x 19 cm Year: 2024 Price: $300.00 USD Status: available A moment where beauty meets destruction — a butterfly caught between the pull of love and the sting of pain. One wing consumed by fire, the other reaching for the light, it embodies the quiet agony of choosing a path that both warms and wounds. Why collect this work?A pale butterfly is held against a near-black, almost circular field, but an orange flare disrupts its bilateral form. That broken symmetry recasts metamorphosis as a state in which attraction and damage cannot be separated. Poluna states that she paints emotional states rather than stories, often through tension, vulnerability, and transformation. The butterfly serves that approach here without fixing the image to a single narrative.The photograph shows one broad, patterned wing remaining clearly legible while the opposite side is partly obscured by flame. The compact 20 by 19 cm format concentrates this conflict around the insect’s body.The documented oil on canvas panel supports a compact painting in which pale markings and orange flame register sharply against darkness. Oil may also permit the close tonal gradations visible in the photographed wings.Dated 2024, Seared provides a pointed encounter with transformation under pressure: destruction does not follow beauty but occupies the same body, leaving renewal unresolved. 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.
