Benvenuta. Welcome (2026)Oil painting by Oksana Siciliana

"Benvenuta" is a visual recording of the exact moment an illusion ends and an awakening begins.

Started in the brutalist, shadow-filled landscape of Latina, this work captures a paradoxical transformation. What began as an effort to preserve a crumbling past — a marriage, a home, a direction — resulted in a radical structural collapse. The cracks in the wall are the physical manifestations of a sudden, sharp epiphany.

While the skeletal tree and the "view within a view" draw from the Magrittean surrealist tradition, the painting is deeply grounded in a lived reality. The lemon on the sill remains the only unbroken element: a sacred relic of Sicily and a golden anchor to the artist's true self.

This piece is not about the tragedy of the fracture, but about the awakening it forced. It is a "welcome" to the stinging, brilliant light of a new consciousness—the moment of waking up when the dream has finally ended.

Original oil painting.
The photo's colours might be slightly different from the original painting.
I signed the painting from the front.
The artwork has a hanging system allowing it to be fixed on a wall, and the sides are painted.
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Materials used:

Oil on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 60 x 80 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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