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This work explores the absolute distance between how we perceived the world as children and how we experience it today.
As children, reality was understood through fragments of animated worlds — different cartoon characters, different visual languages, all coexisting without conflict. Logic was not required. Meaning was emotional, intuitive, immediate. The world felt complete because it did not demand coherence.
The dark, vertically divided structure of the painting represents the architecture of adult reality — ordered, controlled, and emotionally restrained. Within this rigid system, small, colorful fragments of childhood perception appear like interruptions rather than memories. They do not belong to the structure; they resist it.
The cartoon figures at the base are not nostalgic references. They are remnants of a collective visual language that once allowed us to feel safe, curious, and open. In the context of the present world, they appear fragile, displaced, almost out of time.
This painting is not about remembering childhood — it is about realizing that the way we once understood the world no longer fits into the reality we have built.
- Country
- Georgia
- Category
- Painting
- Technique
- Mixed media
- Medium
- Canvas
- Theme
- Figure Painting
- Dimensions
- 11.8 × 9.8 in
- On Artelista
- SINCE DECEMBER 27, 2025
- Tags
- abstract, art, film, anime, investment
- License
- © All rights reserved
About the artist
Gela Mikava Verified artist
Georgia | Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
Gela Mikava (b. 1995, Zugdidi, Georgia) Lives and works in Tbilisi Gela Mikava is a Georgian visual artist whose practice centers on inherited trauma, material memory, and the long afterlife of… Keep reading
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