Damar by Sjafril Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm Year: 2025 Price: $1698.00 USD Status: available A contemplative scene of floating vessels in cool blue hues, symbolizing inner warmth, silence, and unseen narratives. Why collect this work?A cropped lantern dominates the square composition, yet its light is not visibly cast; instead, orange accents recur across a field of drifting paper boats, separating illumination from any clear destination. Sjafril describes his practice as grounded in silence and contemplation. The painting supports that aim through suspended objects and the absence of depicted human action, while leaving their symbolic relation unresolved.In the photograph, boats of varied sizes cross a teal, compartmented ground without a shared direction. Their pale silhouettes interrupt the dense blue field, while the oversized central lantern establishes an uncertain hierarchy of shelter, guidance, and distance.The documented acrylic-on-canvas medium makes strong opacity and repeated colour contrasts possible. Here, limited teal, beige, and orange group otherwise disconnected objects into a coherent visual system.Encountering Damar allows close consideration of how still-life objects can lose stable scale and support. Lanterns and folded vessels become signs whose practical functions remain recognizable even as the scene denies ordinary physical logic. About the ArtistSjafril Sjafril is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in KABUPATEN PASURUAN, ID. Nationality: Indonesian My practice is rooted in silence and contemplation, using figurative and symbolic imagery to explore inner life and social reflection.
