by Yelena Lev Navtikova

Artwork Description

Ladder of Realms

18.0 x 24.0 inches

In Ladder of Realms, I invite the viewer to journey beyond the visible — to ascend through layers of perception, memory, and spirit. The painting unfolds as a quiet pilgrimage, where five spheres rise like sacred markers through a sky of drifting clouds, each one a portal to an inner world. Within these suspended orbs live reflections of distant corridors, ancient arcades, and dreamlike passages — fragments of realms both remembered and imagined. They hover above a serene body of water, as if emerging from the depths of consciousness, lifting the eye and the soul toward something higher, more mysterious. The rocky foreground speaks to the grounded struggle of human existence, while the ascent suggests transcendence, awakening, and the quiet order hidden within chaos. This piece is a meditation on the spaces we carry within — the temples of thought, the sanctuaries of feeling, the silent thresholds between what we know and what we sense. Ladder of Realms is not just a climb through air and light, but a return to the architecture of the self — ever evolving, ever ascending.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Acrylic

Genre: Surrealism