CONTEMPORARY SYMBOLIC ABSTRACTION
The Works of Milla Petrova
A fusion of Soviet-era iconography and contemporary symbolic abstraction where the precision of light and the weight of history meet to reveal humanity and harmony.
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“For me, art is a language. A deliberate act of pausing time to capture life's fleeting beauty.”
Each composition begins with a visceral spark—a coded symbol, a splash, a glance—and grows through the imagination into a world of tension and harmony.
With a delicate yet deliberate hand, I bring fleeting moments to life. Working seamlessly between pencil, watercolor, and acrylic, I blend the technique of meticulous detail with the expressive freedom of contemporary abstraction. My work remains realistic in execution, yet emotional in essence.
Where Power Meets Humanity
How Fragile We Are treats vulnerability as endurance. Blue carries the weight of distance and loss; gold holds what refuses to break. The surface looks weathered but still lets in light, suggesting that identity endures through damage. It is less a tribute than a quiet act of witness, serving as a reminder that strength often arrives disguised as fragility.
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Heritage and Modernity
Psychological Symbolism
Grotesk drifts between memory and irony. Drawn in pencil and edged with gold, it reads like a map of thought where pills, words, and small figures float in and out of meaning.
The Cyrillic note (ПОСЛАНИ С УРОКА КАРАТЕ) feels intentionally odd, almost like a memory fragment or an ironic echo. But this fits with the rest of the artwork’s collage of words and symbols, a trace of control from another time. Gold fills the breaks and seams, turning damage into design.
It becomes a quiet portrait of endurance made from fragments that refuse to vanish.
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Between Place and Mind
Summer in Sweden 2022 captures the quiet geometry of the mirrored sauna sculptures at Artipelag. The painting studies how light, form, and reflection define space. It turns a familiar scene into an arrangement of color and texture that suggests calm, structure, and the stillness of a northern summer.
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