Flora from another memory, series Botanical dreams by Naia Viaznikova
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 45 x 35 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $500.00 USD
Status: available
The plot of the work is immersed in surreal darkness, where the usual logic dissolves. It’s a space where the imagination creates its own species, its own laws of growth and decay. The painting shows not a plant, but a state - the moment when the dream begins to materialize, but has not yet taken its final form. Acrylic on canvas, 35*45 cm (13,8''*17,7'') Signed on the front and back by the artist. Stretched and ready to hang. A certificate of Authenticity signed and dated by the artist will be included in the package.
Why collect this work?
A pale, branching form is held between antler, bone, stem, and flower. Its unresolved identity makes transformation the painting’s subject rather than a depicted event.
- Viaznikova describes her practice as pursuing transitional moments when one form retains traces of another. Here, that intention is supported by botanical and skeletal shapes sharing the same curved contours.
- In the supplied photograph, the central fork spreads across a dark field while broad leaf-like forms press in from the edges. Their overlapping silhouettes compress depth and keep the eye testing figure against ground.
- The documented acrylic medium permits opaque pale passages beside darker, thinner-looking areas. In the photograph, uneven coverage softens boundaries, making the central shape appear partly formed rather than precisely illustrated.
- This 2025 painting can anchor a focused consideration of how contemporary botanical imagery accommodates mortality without settling into conventional still life. Its compact scale concentrates that ambiguity into a single emblematic cluster.
About the Artist
Naia Viaznikova
Naia Viaznikova is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Novogrudok, BY.
Nationality: Belarusian
In my practice, I create spaces of silence and slowed perception - spaces in which familiar reality temporarily becomes less stable.
