dreamer

Mixmedia and leaf gold on canvas

110×110 cm

2018

She dreams of a perfect world — a lost paradise reminiscent of Atlantis — a place untouched by greed, destruction, or suffering. In her submerged solitude, reality dissolves into fantasy, and the ocean becomes a sanctuary for longing, memory, and escape. The ruins of an imagined utopia seem to surround her, shimmering faintly through the blue darkness like fragments of another existence.

Her eyes are bound, deepening the impression that she exists not within reality, but within an inner world shaped by dreams and illusion. The blindfold becomes a symbol of both protection and vulnerability: a refusal to witness the harshness of the real world, and at the same time, a surrender to imagination and hope. She does not see the world as it is, but as it could be.

The painting evokes a quiet tension between beauty and melancholy, between escapism and yearning. Beneath the water’s surface, the ballerina becomes a metaphor for humanity itself — searching for purity, peace, and a lost harmony that feels increasingly distant, yet never entirely beyond reach.