ob’s world is one where tranquility pervades. Gentle hues, misty scenes, and wide-eyed, reticent girls create a sanctuary where one’s defenses quietly dissolve. Softened contours rendered in oil pastels form a blue haze, imbued with the spirit of gathered moisture. This atmosphere stirs emotions, allowing them to accumulate, ferment, and flow within. Everything in the painting morphs gradually, sometimes fading into nothingness, at other times reemerging with vivid clarity. Dreamlike yet grounded in tangible objects, these scenes navigate the delicate boundary between reality and dreamscape.

Water transcends being merely a subject in ob’s paintings; it becomes a medium. Be it a pond where water lilies bloom, a distant coastline glimpsed during a picnic, a lake traversed by boat, or a bathtub filled with water, water carries the artist’s intrinsic imaginings of matter. Delving into the essence of water, she consistently expands and draws on its fluidity, uncertainty, boundaries, and transparency. This reshapes reality with subjective distortions, all fluidly converged through water. Here, water acts as a catalyst, opening the passageway to another world.

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