Encapsulated (2025 – ...)
Big city, invisible shells, and figures sealed in stone. "Encapsulated" turns modern loneliness into something ancient — as if archaeologists from the future just dug up our present.
Textured paintings that feel like time capsules. Look closer.
Textured paintings that feel like time capsules. Look closer.
Creating Clouds
oil on linen canvas, bird feather
50 x 60 x 2 cm / 19,7 х 23,6 x 0,8 inch
© Daria Harlauta 2023
SOLD in a Private Collection, Russia
50 x 60 x 2 cm / 19,7 х 23,6 x 0,8 inch
© Daria Harlauta 2023
SOLD in a Private Collection, Russia
The Facets of Myth:
Encapsulated (2025 – present)
This series is about life in a big city — the feeling of being close to millions of people, yet completely alone. I call it "encapsulation": like being sealed inside a invisible shell.
Look closer at the paintings. You'll see figures and architectural fragments trapped under layers of plaster and stone, as if they’ve been buried for centuries. It’s not a sad story, though. It’s a shift in perspective: imagine archaeologists from the future digging through our time. What would they find? Our loneliness? Our rush? Our silence in crowded metro cars?
Technically, I mix street art geometry with rough antique maps, organic bionic shapes, and even fragments of Renaissance frescoes. I add textured pastes, mineral pigments, engraving, and sometimes 3D elements that break out of the canvas. Then I partially erase or "seal" parts of the image — to show how we hide ourselves, layer by layer.
The result is not just a painting. It's a time capsule. An invitation to see your everyday life as something already ancient, already precious. To step outside your own "capsule" and observe it with curiosity, not fear.
This series is about life in a big city — the feeling of being close to millions of people, yet completely alone. I call it "encapsulation": like being sealed inside a invisible shell.
Look closer at the paintings. You'll see figures and architectural fragments trapped under layers of plaster and stone, as if they’ve been buried for centuries. It’s not a sad story, though. It’s a shift in perspective: imagine archaeologists from the future digging through our time. What would they find? Our loneliness? Our rush? Our silence in crowded metro cars?
Technically, I mix street art geometry with rough antique maps, organic bionic shapes, and even fragments of Renaissance frescoes. I add textured pastes, mineral pigments, engraving, and sometimes 3D elements that break out of the canvas. Then I partially erase or "seal" parts of the image — to show how we hide ourselves, layer by layer.
The result is not just a painting. It's a time capsule. An invitation to see your everyday life as something already ancient, already precious. To step outside your own "capsule" and observe it with curiosity, not fear.
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