by Yelena Lev Navtikova

Artwork Description

Heart Garden

36.0 x 48.0 inches

In this surreal landscape, hearts grow like trees—rooted in the earth yet reaching toward the infinite. Their branching veins echo both roots and rivers, suggesting that love, memory, and vitality are forces that nourish and sustain us across time and space. Suspended spheres drift like otherworldly planets, reminders of unseen realms and the fragile balance between body and spirit. The presence of the ravens transforms the scene into one of guardianship and mystery—figures of transition, witnesses to cycles of life and death, love and loss. The architectural thresholds in the distance invite passage, suggesting portals into deeper dimensions of the self, where the heart is both vessel and compass. The seated figure, contemplative and bare, mirrors the heart-tree in silence, embodying the eternal dialogue between human reason and the instincts of the heart. This work is a meditation on resilience and transformation. It asks: What grows when we plant our heart into the soil of experience? How do our inner landscapes mirror the cosmos above? In these entwined visions of nature, body, and spirit, the painting offers a world where the heart itself becomes the root of existence—endlessly branching, endlessly alive.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Oil

Genre: Surrealism