Sealing A Broken Heart 2022

Daria Theodora’s Sealing A Broken Heart is made with watercolor on paper. The palette is muted and pastel, with soft blues, lilacs, and greens. I can imagine the artist delicately layering the washes of color, allowing the image to slowly emerge. The dreamy scene is strange. The girl seems to be sealing her heart inside a box but who is the chicken lurking behind her? And what about those fish? I love how the black of the chicken feathers is made of tiny white stars. The painting invites us into a world of symbols, which is so fascinating to me. It’s like she’s trying to mend something fragile, maybe a relationship or a sense of self. The process becomes an exploration of vulnerability and resilience. As artists, we’re all in conversation with one another. Theodora here opens a space of imagination that is, like painting itself, full of both intention and uncertainty.