In Search of My Other Half (2026)
Painting by Dags Vidulejs
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Oil on Linen Canvas, 110x150 cm
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil / Acrylic / Lacquer on Linen Canvas
Dimensions Height 110cm, Width 150cm
Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
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Categories Paintings under €2,000 Conceptual Art Science fiction
In Search of My Other Half
oil/linen canvas (2026)
150x110cm
Ⓒ Dags Vidulejs
Sketch of 2026 for exhibition DIVINE COMMEDY od Dante & Dags According to the impressions of the premiere of Antonin Dvorak’s opera “Mermaid” Mermaid is a mythological creature that lives in water. In art, she is depicted as a beautiful woman with a fish tail.
Father, the poet Valdis Rūja, worked as the director of the Opera House. That is why the first memories of childhood are about the magic of theater. Red velvet chairs you can’t climb on, the director’s lodge edging, sniffing and bubbling in the auditorium waiting for a call. The abyss of an orchestra pit with a rumble, long beautiful legs in ballet puantes on the toes, and a skirt like an umbrella and bottoms from below, a rubbed plank floor in the exercise room behind the piano, a buffet staircase to the basement and a standing table with delicacies. As well as the live all night opera fountain Nāra, who seduces on the black canal in the moonlight, after the show, going home through the parks to Zaubes Street, with her big dad at hand.
In 2008, after the premiere of Dvořák’s opera “NĀRA”, an ink drawing was made in the most beautiful park in Riga, sitting on a block of watercolor paper until morning. Sitting in a warm grass, where you could find fragrant lace linen among the flowers. From the nightclubs of Old Riga, the girls who were still completely free at night lured the lilac bushes of the park in Riga to the much intoxicated seekers of the northern lands. However, the fountains and Dvořák’s Mermaid have turned the girl into magical fairies and mermaids, who lure stray romantics with love hearts to the canal to the redeeming heart and forgetfulness to Mermaid’s embrace.
During the mystical curfew of 2021, when not coming home, past police punishment patrols, spending the night under the park’s long willow hair, glistening in the blue emerald light, under the Basteja canal bridge, the Mermaid and the Beaver roared again seeing mosquitoes and wiggles.
«In 2022, after a catastrophic change in the system of government, after the start of the war, global freezing, rising radiation levels, violent restrictions on human rights, strange things began. According to eyewitness accounts from the canals, rivers, fountains and wells, strangely charming virgins have begun to appear. Who have seduced lonely thinkers who have sought refuge from their harassing absences. Many missing people appeared in the press. There is no reliable information about whether it was possible to move to another dimension through these water portal portals.
The stalemate in the development of civilization forced people to be amphibious creatures. For amphibians living both on land and in water. If you are sitting on the edge of a pond, your feet are not visible. And the gills open easily. And it was a long time before people closed their gills. Not to take for granted, but to talk to the body and think in action.»
About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles
Oil
Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.
Acrylic
Paint using traditional pigments mixed with synthetic resins.
Lacquer
Paint made with a resin from tree sap, various shrubs or with lacquer paints based on thermosetting resins. The technique consists in superimposing layers of lacquers with a vigorous polishing between each layer. It is mostly smooth shiny, but can sometimes also be satin or very Matt.
Technic Painting
Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.