Reclining Figure 

Editor: We are looking at Dimitris Mytaras’ "Reclining Figure", an acrylic painting that strikes me with its bold colors and flattened perspective. It's as if two characters, frozen in a moment of playful drama, are sharing a surreal stage. What catches your eye, what do you read in this composition? Curator: Oh, isn't it scrumptious? This feels like stepping into a dream. Mytaras captures the playful side of reality and renders it as something almost mythological, with figures that could be modern-day muses or mischievous deities lounging about. It is like they carry a world, both literally with the orb and symbolically, through the stories their posture evokes. Do you sense that touch of theatre, too, that slight sense of artifice? Editor: I see that playfulness for sure. They're definitely self-aware, like actors in a painting! But that orb, what do you make of it? Curator: The orb... maybe it is like looking into yourself. Mytaras may be speaking on identity and reflection; he offers clues but never spells it out, letting us the viewers become co-conspirators in deciphering its enigma. Don't you love that little bit of ambiguity? Editor: That's a great point about self-reflection and how he gives us room to join in on the discovery. It makes you consider your own "performance" of identity. Curator: Indeed, it brings such vitality and life to something as quiet as reclining. I love when a painting lets my imagination do its little acrobatic feats, you know? What do you think you'll take away with you from the viewing today? Editor: I think I'll look at portraits a little differently. I’ll see them more as active narratives, alive with personality and open to interpretation. Curator: Oh, that is glorious to hear, an awakened narrative of the soul in color!