Where You Are - Eternity (2025) Original Oil Painting by Maxim Bondarenko

Flowers are always messengers between. Nature's little miracles, they allow us to possess them, as if it gave us an illusion of control over the Nature itself. They help us with the meanings, when we lose anything. They remind us about transience of all. About our transience.

I wanted to achieve the absolutely coldest blue. I wanted the flame of sunflowers there giving the hope of warmth, the same time helping to understand, making it obvious that any hope is hopeless.
This morning I learned that the calmness of a blue room is a temporary thing. Something happens, the brain adopts to any blue walls and becomes anxious back as it was before. I believe the flaming warmth of yellow is temporary too.
The idea of warmth manifested in color is just an idea. Another mental construct.
The only warmth was in your heart. In every beat of it. I miss it.

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 45.72 x 60.96 x 1.27cm (unframed) / 45.72 x 60.96cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Flowers and plants