About Scent of Smoke II
The painting emerges as a profound meditation on transience and hidden dimensions, featuring a dark background almost completely obscured by swirling white smoke. Emerging through the translucent smoke tendrils are owls flying towards the viewer.
The artwork captures a sense of dynamic movement and otherworldly presence. The owls appear to materialize from the smoke, their wings cutting through the white tendrils, creating a sense of emergence and disappearance. Their flight towards the viewer creates an unsettling, almost confrontational atmosphere.
The painting invites contemplation on the liminal spaces between reality and imagination, where natural forms dissolve and reshape themselves. The smoke acts not just as a visual element, but as a metaphorical substance that blurs boundaries between presence and absence, life and dissolution.
The owls’ direct gaze and forward motion suggest a profound narrative of revelation – as if they are messengers emerging from another realm, carrying secrets through the ethereal smoke landscape.
110 cm x 110 cm
Created 2017.
Acrylic on canvas.