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Original artwork description:
In “The Cards”, each figure becomes a human embodiment of fate — silent, mirrored, and suspended between two realities. The symmetrical composition echoes the duality of existence: the self and its reflection, choice and destiny, surface and depth.
The artist reimagines playing cards as metaphors for identity — not as symbols of luck or chance, but as portraits of inner balance, confrontation, and emotional stillness.
The repetition and reflection suggest a timeless game where the human soul is both the player and the card itself.
Materials used:
acrylic and oil on fabric
Tags:
#abstract figure #symbolic portrait #surreal composition #mirrored identity #emotional dualityThe Card (2023) Mixed-media painting
by Gela MIKAVA
1 Artist Reviews
£2,036.04
- Mixed-media painting on Fabric
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 100 x 3cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
In “The Cards”, each figure becomes a human embodiment of fate — silent, mirrored, and suspended between two realities. The symmetrical composition echoes the duality of existence: the self and its reflection, choice and destiny, surface and depth.
The artist reimagines playing cards as metaphors for identity — not as symbols of luck or chance, but as portraits of inner balance, confrontation, and emotional stillness.
The repetition and reflection suggest a timeless game where the human soul is both the player and the card itself.
Materials used:
acrylic and oil on fabric
Tags:
#abstract figure #symbolic portrait #surreal composition #mirrored identity #emotional duality
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Artist Reviews (1)
Gela MIKAVA
Georgia
About
Gela Mikava (b. 1995, Zugdidi, Georgia)
Lives and works in TbilisiGela Mikava is a Georgian visual artist whose practice centers on inherited trauma, material memory, and the long afterlife of collapsed... Read more