Original artwork description:

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The painting "Summer is Almost Over" from the MADELEINE series is a quiet farewell to a season of light and warmth—filled with sensuality, stillness, and gratitude. It captures a moment of transition: not quite autumn, but no longer summer, when the air is infused with the anticipation of change, and both body and mind still cling to sunlit rituals.
The flowers, the cat, the book—all serve here as emotional anchors, guarding the inner space from the chaos of the outside world. This work speaks to the value of slowing down and noticing the small things: the rustle of pages, warmth on the palm, the scent of flowers. These simple details become vessels of stability, inner light, and trust in what is passing.
The painting is not about loss, but about the maturity of acceptance. It explores how memory absorbs not only events but atmosphere—the kind of presence that cannot be captured in words. And it is precisely this subtle, elusive quality that becomes the deepest anchor in the future.
"Summer is Almost Over" is an image of tenderly living through the present moment—when every touch of the everyday becomes an act of love for oneself and for the time that will never come again in quite the same way.

Madeleine series
In the Madeleine 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

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