Original artwork description:

The painting titled "Postage Stamp of the Kingdom of Karkadia" is created in a vivid expressionist and surrealist style. It’s a rich, multilayered artwork filled with symbols, human faces, elements of urban architecture, and transportation motifs. What initially appears as visual chaos gradually reveals itself to be a complex composition where every spot and detail carries meaning.

Main Elements of the Painting:

Faces: In the foreground, there are two expressive faces — one male and one female — embedded into an abstract urban landscape. Their gazes are directed outward, as if they are observing the viewer. The faces seem to merge with the background, becoming part of the city itself.

Cityscape: Scattered throughout are images of houses, bridges, streets, staircases, trains, and towers — evoking a bustling, fantastical metropolis.

Text: Words like KINGDOM, POST, KARKADIA, and other partially legible phrases give the piece the appearance of a postage stamp, as if it's a symbolic message from an imaginary world.
Color Palette: Saturated blues, reds, yellows, and greens amplify the sense of dynamism and dream-like atmosphere.

Interpretation:

The painting can be seen as a visual letter or memory from the fictional Kingdom of Karkadia. It's filled with dreams, travels, and stories of the people living in this imagined realm. Perhaps it’s a metaphor for the inner world of a person, where memories, emotions, images, and fragments of reality intertwine.
This piece perfectly fits the idea of a “postage stamp from another dimension” — a small fragment that contains an entire universe within.
This artwork is made by traditional technology. Oil paints, canvas and linseed oil.
The picture is made in the author's method of associative analysis.
I think that this is somewhere post-expressionism.

Materials used:

Linseed oil on canvas.

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