Illuminated

Location Paide Kaubamaja

/ Acrylic landscape painting, EPO resin, MDF – dimensions 2.5 x 2.5 meters, dome diameter_1.9 meters, projection from the wall 54 centimeters /
 

Authors Oliver Soomets and Argo Männik

2022

The acrylic painting “Valgustatud” depicts the sun in the artist’s interpretation and contains a metaphor that arises from the struggle between the opposites of light and darkness. Light is something that brings an entity or essence from darkness into visibility and shows the way. We see the light and want to be enlightened because darkness is ignorance that hides dangers. It is good to see – to be enlightened.
 
The given painting is part of the triological painting series “The Gaze of God.