{"product_id":"followed-my-feelings","title":"Followed my feelings","description":"\u003cp\u003eTempera on canvas, 2022\u003cbr\u003e90x40 cm \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis work was created during the beginning of my life in Hamburg, shortly after leaving Ukraine because of the war. At that time I was thinking deeply about families who had lost their homes, their familiar spaces, and the physical reality that once gave them a sense of safety and identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven when people survive, something irreversible still disappears.A house is never only walls. It is memory, childhood, intimacy, routine, emotional geography, and the feeling of belonging somewhere in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting was inspired partly by the emotional atmosphere of Marc Chagall’s works. I was deeply moved by the way he transformed loss, displacement, love, memory, and human fragility into poetic visual language. I did not want to directly recreate his style, but I wanted to carry a similar emotional weight and dreamlike emotional movement inside the composition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe angelic presence inside the work became a symbol of protection, hope, and invisible emotional survival. At the same time, the figures remain emotionally suspended between safety and loss, between memory and displacement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor me, this painting is not only about war.It is about the psychological experience of losing a physical world while trying to preserve an inner emotional one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe layered forms and floating composition create a feeling of emotional instability, almost like memory itself drifting between past and present. I wanted the work to feel fragile, human, and emotionally honest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Followed My Feelings” became one of the first paintings through which I tried to process displacement, grief, emotional intuition, and the invisible transformation that happens after loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”\u003cbr\u003e — Marc Chagall\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darina Mykytiuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49177631523140,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0858\/8460\/0644\/files\/DA6ABF9B-BC77-4FAD-B413-8AB588F8BC62.jpg?v=1725263716","url":"https:\/\/mykytiuk.de\/products\/followed-my-feelings","provider":"MIKITYUK ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}