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Hold your light (2025)Oil painting
by Delnara El
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Original artwork description
"Hold your light" is a window I built for myself when home kept moving. I’ve spent hours in corridors and makeshift rooms, learning to make a small climate of care from almost nothing — a cup of water, a quiet lamp that turns into a moon. The sunflower is me: rooted for now, still turning toward a sun that sits just outside the frame. This isn't a view; it’s a brace, a threshold that gathers what I can keep.
I stripped the color to hear the structure of the moment. In grayscale, light stops being decoration and becomes an action — something I do. The pot, the ledge, the wooden edge hold the body together while the mind redraws its map. I paint to practice tenderness as a form of resistance: attention, breath, and the simple work of keeping orientation when the world tilts.
“Hold your light” is both a reminder and a promise. I carry my daylight the way others carry keys. Some days it flickers; some days it floods the room. But even in the narrowest niche, it is enough to face outward again. If you stand here with me — inside this quiet rectangle — you might feel your own light collecting, steady and living, waiting to be shared.
Materials used:
oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 70 x 100cm (unframed) / 60 x 90cm (actual image size)
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
Tags:
#dark#light#home#plants#leaves#window#hope#positive#pot#inside#low key#melancholia#sunflover#black white#metafore
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Original artwork description
"Hold your light" is a window I built for myself when home kept moving. I’ve spent hours in corridors and makeshift rooms, learning to make a small climate of care from almost nothing — a cup of water, a quiet lamp that turns into a moon. The sunflower is me: rooted for now, still turning toward a sun that sits just outside the frame. This isn't a view; it’s a brace, a threshold that gathers what I can keep.
I stripped the color to hear the structure of the moment. In grayscale, light stops being decoration and becomes an action — something I do. The pot, the ledge, the wooden edge hold the body together while the mind redraws its map. I paint to practice tenderness as a form of resistance: attention, breath, and the simple work of keeping orientation when the world tilts.
“Hold your light” is both a reminder and a promise. I carry my daylight the way others carry keys. Some days it flickers; some days it floods the room. But even in the narrowest niche, it is enough to face outward again. If you stand here with me — inside this quiet rectangle — you might feel your own light collecting, steady and living, waiting to be shared.
Materials used:
oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 70 x 100cm (unframed) / 60 x 90cm (actual image size)
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
Tags:
#dark#light#home#plants#leaves#window#hope#positive#pot#inside#low key#melancholia#sunflover#black white#metafore
Delnara El
Türkiye
About
My name is Natalia (Delnara is my creative pseudonym). I'm from Ukraine.
I'm a full-time artist, my passion is painting and travel. For seven years I traveled to different countries... Read more