Original artwork description:

Reborn in the Memory of Traveling
Series: Beyond the Inside
Size: 80 x 60 cm
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Artist: Ovidiu Kloska
Description:
Reborn in the Memory of Traveling stands as a poetic artifact of inner exploration — a contemporary fantastical mindscape that does not merely suggest a place, but a condition of perception. Part of Ovidiu Kloska’s ongoing metaphysical series Beyond the Inside, this work merges abstraction with the strange magnetism of otherworldly terrains. It evokes the visionary potential of painting not as representation, but as revelation.
Layered with iridescent textures, vaporous washes, and enigmatic markings, the surface unfolds like a psychic geography — somewhere between the cellular memory of the body and the dream-coded maps of alternate dimensions. The composition floats in a liminal space where the real and the imagined, the remembered and the possible, dissolve into one another. It becomes a mirror of altered awareness, where logic fractures and a deeper intuitive language takes over.
In dialogue with the contemporary tendency toward fantastical abstraction, this work aligns itself with an artistic lineage that seeks to stretch the limits of perception — to visualize that which resists being seen. Like the surreal topographies of a dream or the atmospheric inner realms explored by artists such as Mati Klarwein, Remedios Varo, or Zdzisław Beksiński, Kloska’s mindscapes are not escapist: they are probing instruments, opening the viewer to the unfathomed potential of human consciousness.
Here, traveling is not merely movement across terrain, but a rebirth into possibility. Each layer, each gesture, each spectral hue is a portal — an invitation to imagine other timelines, other selves, and above all, other truths. The painting proposes that beneath the surface of daily experience lies a vault of unrevealed knowledge — truths that are waiting to be remembered, or perhaps re-dreamed.
This canvas suggests that we, as a species, have only begun to touch the outer membranes of our perceptual abilities. The abstract landscape becomes a site of invocation — a silent yet urgent reminder that the expansion of consciousness is not only possible, but essential. Art, in this form, becomes an oracle: whispering in textures, in color frequencies, in unseen architectures. It opens the mind to what cannot yet be spoken — and to the realms of knowing that still await humanity’s courage to discover them.
Reborn in the Memory of Traveling is both artifact and prophecy. It speaks from the future of awareness and offers the viewer not answers, but a question:
Are you ready to remember what you have never known?

Materials used:

acrylics and sprays on stretched canvas varnished framed

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