Dream in the Vortex
Year: 2025
Material/Technique: Acrylic, Panel
Size: 91 × 91 × 2.5 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
This artwork is available for purchase.
USD 5,371
Note: Prices are displayed as reference prices converted at the exchange rate. Payments are made in Japanese yen.
About the Work
- Year
- 2025
- Material/Technique
- Acrylic, Panel
- Size
- 91 × 91 × 2.5 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Credits
- Maika Kobayashi
- Frame
- Negotiations
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- MAIKA KOBAYASHI
- Ship-from Area
- Yamagata Prefecture
- Days Until Dispatch
- 4-7 Days
- Category
- Painting
- Style
- Pop Art, Japanese Painting / Japanese Style, Asia, Emotional, Romantic, Half Abstraction
Work Details
This work is inspired by the long period of waiting that follows the “Flower Duet” in Act II of Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly. What began as a dream of blessing gradually ceases to expand outward and instead begins to rotate inward. Hope, though increasingly questioned, is never abandoned; it becomes a vortex of repeating thoughts and emotions that surrounds her. The movement filling the composition is not one of progression but of endless circulation. Yet Butterfly still remains within the dream. Dream in the Vortex depicts the moment when belief, once a source of support, begins to transform into a structure from which escape becomes impossible.
My works are primarily created using acrylic paint on canvas or panel. I build the image through multiple layers of color, gradually constructing depth, luminosity, and decorative richness.
View in a Room
How to Buy
This artwork is available for purchase.
USD 5,371
Note: Prices are displayed as reference prices converted at the exchange rate. Payments are made in Japanese yen.
Need help with purchasing?
Join the waiting list
Join the waiting list to be notified when artworks become available for purchase.
Start Chat
Our art concierge is here to help. Please feel free to chat with us about artwork recommendations or issues with purchasing.
Artist
Painter/Muralist
Painter and mural artist known for precise hand-painted realism created with acrylics. Her work combines the human figure with ornamental motifs such as flowers, butterflies, and symbolic elements inspired by Japanese culture, exploring themes of emotion, memory, and the fragility of belief.
She began her artistic career with a solo exhibition in New York in 2010. From 2015 she expanded her activities internationally, living and working in the United Kingdom until 2017 while presenting solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Amsterdam.
Since 2019 she has also focused on mural projects. In Bangkok she initiated the SDGs-inspired art project “Art Can Help You,” which gathered 1,500 participants over three days at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).
She currently explores the concept of “creating atmosphere through art,” focusing on how painting can shape and transform space.
Send a Sticker
Support Request Message
Send a Sticker to this artwork and support the artist.(¥160〜)
What is Sticker?
私は、日本文化と現代的な色彩を融合させた絵画を制作しています。作品は「空間の象徴となるアート」をテーマに、ホテルやレジデンスなどの空間で人と作品が出会う場を広げていきたいと考えています。いただいたStickerは、新しい作品制作や展示の準備、より大きな空間作品への挑戦のために大切に活用させていただきます。応援していただけたら嬉しいです。