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This poetic mixed media artwork by Ruxandra Cristina Dumitriu, titled “INNERWORLD – Kissing of the Two Worlds,” is a profound example of contemporary figurative photography layered with conceptual abstraction, minimalist mixed media, and gold leaf detailing. Measuring 34 x 46 inches framed, the piece invites quiet introspection through its layered symbolism, restrained palette, and ethereal composition.
At first glance, the work presents a delicate veil of thin, translucent paper draped over a blurred black-and-white photograph of two small human figures walking across a snow-covered landscape. This overlay creates a dreamlike atmosphere, suggesting memory, distance, or a spiritual realm suspended between reality and reverie. Tracing across this ethereal surface is a hand-applied line of gold leaf and paint. Subtle, deliberate, and luminous, this painting evokes the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of kintsugi, where fractures are not hidden but celebrated.
The use of texture is particularly powerful: the crinkled veil mimics the folds of skin, maps, or mountain ranges, while the glimmering gold serves as both boundary and bridge between two emotional worlds. The contrast between material softness and metallic sharpness imbues the piece with emotional tension - fragility counterbalanced by permanence. The artwork explores connection, healing, and the invisible threads that bind the internal and external realms. It touches the viewer with a meditative stillness, encouraging reflection on vulnerability, intimacy, and transformation.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, this piece is professionally framed and ready to hang. Local delivery is available in the Los Angeles area, with affordable domestic and international shipping options also offered.
Ruxandra Cristina Bocin-Dumitriu was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1979 and was always fascinated by two, otherwise distinct, areas: art and technology. Studying both meant the artist got in very close contact with programming (C++, Java, AI) and graphic art studies. The unusual combination led to an ease of expression through technology as well as a special take on visual metaphors.
Dumitriu's elected themes investigate perception mechanisms, digital dimensions and technologies, media and broadcasting issues, surveillance society and society paradigm shifts generated from new technologies. The artist is on an avid quest to understand how meaning is created through interaction, how the translation of actions through different media transforms the meaning itself. Perceptions, both internal and of the worlds, are recreated in each work to break the bias that the media creates. Her works are exhibited in the United States of America, The Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Romania, Israel, and Denmark.
