Myth & Memory

“Melancholy” Original painting

Original painting by Alona Petliarska

43 × 53 cm · 2025 · Framed

From the The Becoming series

“She didn't fall. She rooted.”

Melancholy is not an ending — it is a becoming. The figure sits curled at the centre of a wild, swirling nest of leaves and grass, held by the earth rather than consumed by it. This is a painting about the moments when we go inward — when the world asks too much and we return to something older and quieter inside ourselves. The swirling green forms are not chaos. They are protection. Nature as sanctuary.

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