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Title: Between Realms
Oil Pastels on Paper | 40 x 30 cm | Mounted, in Clear Protective Envelope
By Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
She stands with her back turned—
not as rejection, but as invitation.
We are not meant to see her face. We are meant to sense her.
In this image, drawn from a dream, a feminine figure inhabits a liminal space. She walks through an environment alive with motion—tendrils, petals, energy streams that echo plant forms but suggest far more: spirit, emotion, memory, perhaps even time itself.
Is she Mother Nature? An angelic being? A soul walking through the subconscious?
Laura Bernardeschi Nelson offers no definitive answer. Instead, she leaves space. Space for the viewer to project, to reflect, to wander into their own symbolic terrain.
What we know is this: she exists between worlds.
She does not walk in the world of logic or language, but in one of intuition and possibility.
There are stars in her sky. There are flowers that do not need soil. There are colors that speak in quiet tones.
Created entirely in oil pastels on paper, this painting forgoes sharp edges or precision for a soft, evocative flow. No palette knife was used—just the pressure and gesture of hand-drawn lines, blended in layers to evoke movement and mystery.
The background shifts in gradients of violet and blue—colors traditionally associated with spirit and insight. Green and gold vine-like forms wrap around her, not as constraints but as companions. They seem to grow from her and toward her in equal measure, suggesting a reciprocal relationship between being and environment.
There is something deeply philosophical in her anonymity. We cannot name her.
And in that unknowing, she becomes universal.
She is the dreamer, the protector, the wild feminine, the part of us that wanders when the body sleeps.
At 40 x 30 cm, the painting is intimate in scale, yet expansive in resonance. It comes mounted and sealed in a clear protective envelope, preserving the soft detail and delicate texture of the pastels.
For those who engage with spiritual practice, myth, or archetype, Between Realms offers fertile ground for contemplation. For others, it may simply be a visual echo of something half-remembered from childhood or imagination.
This is not a narrative image.
There is no beginning, no climax, no end.
It is a visual philosophy—an exploration of the spaces between categories: nature and spirit, human and other, form and formlessness.
And in that space—between realms—we are free.
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