Cherry Blossom, 2024

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.About the artworkIn "Cherry Blossom," part of the "Archive of happiness. Unlived Chronicles," I paint a homage to the untasted springs of my family's past. The cherry blossom, with its fleeting bloom, becomes a symbol of the ephemeral joys that were never experienced due to the harsh realities of their time. This piece is a restoration of my heritage's lost moments to the canvas, giving them a permanence denied in history. It is a silent ode to the beauty and resilience of the human spirit, an assertion that despite the past's shadows, there can be a present filled with grace and a future that blooms anew. This work is not just a creation of art; it is a crafted legacy of hope and a portrayal of life's enduring dance with beauty.Series Archive of happiness. Unlived ChroniclesThis is a way for me to work through the trauma of generations who were deprived of the opportunity to have happy years of childhood youth and maturity throughout the 20th century. My family's photos and stories are full of sadness and pain, unfulfilled dreams and broken destinies. The Soviet government was engaged in the dispossession, and displacement of people, families were forced to abandon their homes. I want to create a false archive in which generations of my family were happy. My task as an artist is to rewrite the script, to give voice and image to what my ancestors dreamed of but could not get.  I paint the carefree times that didn't exist, in which they were happy, living in their beautiful rich houses, studying, meeting their love, gathering as a big family for holidays, and whispering each other secrets about suitors. For me it is a way to come to terms with the trauma of generations condemned to survival instead of life, to create a personal image of a future of joy and prosperity, and to show society and others with similar backgrounds that liberation lies not in suffering but in rethinking and strength.