Books about Love (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Dasha Pogodina

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Books about Love belongs to the series, where memory appears not as an archive of facts, but as a fragile atmosphere shaped by objects, silence, and tenderness.

A woman, an open book, a sleeping cat, coffee, and red tulips create an intimate scene in which love is not dramatic, but quietly present — in the ritual of reading, in the warmth of the room, in the suspended time of solitude. The painting turns an ordinary domestic moment into a space of recollection: the past returns not through event, but through mood, touch, and the soft persistence of feeling.

Medelin series

In the  series, Daria Pogodina turns to the phenomenon of involuntary memory, known in psychology and culture as the “Proust effect." The artist explores how ordinary objects and sensory impressions from the past are transformed into emotional anchors—inner pillars of the self.

The objects and images chosen by the author—such as a mother's sweater, childhood food, or the voice of a television announcer—become points of access to the unconscious resources of the psyche, places of comfort and stabilization. Without falling into nostalgic idealization, Pogodina captures the subtle mechanism of interaction between the conscious and the unconscious, where the mundane becomes sacred, and seemingly banal details acquire profound meaning.

These works are not about escaping the present into the past, but about seeking inner light and strength in both personal and collective experience—a testament to the human ability to find resilience in the everyday during times of crisis.

Materials used:

Acrylic

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 94 x 94 x 2cm (unframed) / 94 x 94cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits