Velimna, La soffiatrice di sogni (The Dream Blower)

Description

A woman lies against the trunk of an ancient tree, eyes closed, cheeks flushed with a red that speaks of life. She blows soap bubbles upward – and the bubbles rise, multiply, float through a deep green forest that belongs to no real geography. Her womb is the largest bubble of all: transparent, perfect, containing within it the inverted reflection of the forest itself. As if the woman’s body were the place where dreams are born, take shape, then detach and fly.

La Soffiatrice di Sogni – The Dream Blower – is a Surritratto in the fullest sense of Velimna’s poetics: a work that uses the feminine as symbolic territory, not as decorative subject. The womb is not depicted anatomically but metaphorically- it is a dreamlike bubble, fragile and shifting, suspended between desire and illusion. Each bubble rising upward is a thought setting itself free, or perhaps a wish drifting away. The line between the two is never clear, and Velimna knows it.

The mixed technique – acrylic on canvas with decorative inserts, visible in the small luminous dots woven through the hair and in the necklace – adds a tactile and precious dimension to the painted surface, almost jewellery applied to painting. Green dominates without competition: the green of the forest, of dreams, of the feminine that grows. It is a chromatic choice that envelops, holds, immerses.
A work for those who believe that dreams have a physical form, and that this form is fragile, beautiful, and lasts exactly as long as a single breath.