“Red Lady” Original painting

Original painting by Alona Petliarska

“She wears the materials of domestic life as a crown.”

A figure drawn in watercolour and pencil on sugar red paper, layered with real lace, gold thread, buttons, fabric flowers and found textiles. The materials come from domestic life — inherited, accumulated, ordinary — but assembled here as adornment, as armour, as art. Cross-contamination made physical: painting and object, the handmade and the painted surface inseparable from one another.

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