Ophelia’s Pond

oil on canvas
120 x 90  cm
2011

Ophelia’s Pond
Between Innocence and Becoming

In Ophelia’s Pond, a doll-like figure drifts gently forward into a shimmering body of water, suffused with an otherworldly, spectral light. The moment is suspended — poised delicately between innocence and oblivion. Her long hair dissolves into the flowing tide, merging seamlessly with the liquid surface, while her gaze remains hidden beneath the water’s veil, as if the pond itself holds the echoes of forgotten memories. Painted in soft, luminous gradients of blue, white, and violet, the work channels the enduring archetype of Ophelia, reimagined here in a contemporary liminal state: neither drowned nor alive, but in a profound process of becoming.

This painting dissolves the boundaries between dreamscape and psychological portraiture. The figure serves simultaneously as witness and subject to the depths of emotional experience, as delicate ripples and reflections dance across the water’s surface — metaphors for memory’s fluidity and the fragility of identity. The composition’s ethereal atmosphere invites viewers into a contemplative space where myth, femininity, and transformation intertwine.

Ophelia’s Pond will resonate deeply with curators and collectors attuned to symbolic narrative and introspective figuration. Its quiet tension and poetic stillness embody themes of surrender, beauty, and the liminal pause that precedes metamorphosis. The painting stands as a meditative elegy to the delicate thresholds between life and loss, presence and dissolution.