by Yelena Lev Navtikova

Artwork Description

Intuitive Passage

36.0 x 48.0 inches

In Intuitive Passage, I paint the studio as a threshold—a place where inner vision crosses into form. The moth-headed figure is a quiet self-portrait of perception, a being guided not by logic but by instinct. Like a moth drawn to light, she moves through uncertainty by feeling her way forward, trusting an inner compass rather than a fixed map. The desert landscape stretches wide and cracked, echoing the vulnerability of creation itself. Arches appear again and again on floating canvases, standing on fragile legs like ideas still learning how to balance. These repeating forms reflect my architectural memory, yet here their blueprints are made not of structure, but of breath, memory, and emotion. They are passages—doors that invite crossing rather than certainty. Spheres drift through the sky as silent witnesses, symbols of inner worlds, untold possibilities, and the unseen forces that guide us. A simple bench, a cup, and a letter anchor the scene in the ordinary, reminding me that creation does not happen apart from life, but within it—between pauses, gestures, and human presence. The sneakers ground the myth in the present moment, insisting that intuition belongs not only to dreams, but to daily existence. At the heart of this work is the understanding that love is essential. Love is the quiet force that allows intuition to exist at all — the trust to listen inward, the courage to reveal what is fragile, and the willingness to share what begins as private vision. Love is what transforms uncertainty into passage, fear into movement, and solitude into connection. Intuitive Passage is my meditation on becoming: the moment when an inner image stops being only mine and begins to open itself to others. It is a crossing from interior dusk into a light shaped by care, vulnerability, and love — the most essential guide we have.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Oil

Genre: Surrealism