«Morning Mirage» diptych

acrylic on canvas, 100x160cm., 2025

artwork is available | located in Tbilisi

Here, the horses are stripped of their physical weight — they are woven from morning light, air, and fluid paint. A delicate, almost vibrating orange contour line serves as the sole anchor tethering these mirages to reality.

This piece is a large-scale meditation on fragility, grace, and the immaterial soul of nature.In art, horses are frequently associated with unbridled dynamism, galloping speed, and raw power. However, I wanted to present them in a fundamentally different way: weightless, woven from air, the crisp cool of the morning, and light.

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A shift from contemplating light to investigating the intrinsic energy of plant life. It is a macro-realm where botanical structures transmute into pulsating biorhythms.

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The botanical forms have fully dematerialized, leaving behind purely their essence: a golden incandescence, radiant heat, and upward drafts of air. The vertical lines no longer read as dripping moisture or melting wax. Interacting with the dynamic, upward-thrusting brushstrokes at the core of the compositions, they evoke a profound sense of elevation — akin to witnessing the heat haze of high noon or the physical architecture of a ray of light.

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