Childhood, 2026

Childhood, 2026 Acrylic on canvas, 110x110 cm From the series “Where Is My Home?” Childhood is a time of endless dreaming. The circular forms that move across the canvas represent dreams in all their shapes and sizes, hopes, wishes, and imagined futures. Floating like soft clouds, they reflect the freedom of a child's imagination, where possibilities feel infinite and every dream seems within reach. This painting is part of the series “Where Is My Home?”, a collection exploring the idea that home is not always a physical place. The series began after a period of change in my life when I moved away from my home country and started building a life somewhere new. That experience made me reflect on how the meaning of home can shift over time. Around the world, many people are forced to leave the places they once called home. Wars and conflicts destroy spaces that families have spent years building and sometimes people are never able to return. In moments like these, home becomes something more than a location. For me, home has gradually become a quieter and more internal feeling, a sense of belonging and calm that can exist even when surroundings change. Each painting in this series begins with a warm base layer and develops slowly through multiple layers of colour and movement. The process reflects the way we build our understanding of home through memories, relationships, and experiences. This work is one part of that ongoing exploration. For larger works, where one side exceeds 100 cm, the painting will be carefully removed from the stretcher bars and shipped rolled in a protective tube. Shipping large artworks rolled is a safe and cost-effective method that helps reduce the risk of damage during international transit. Once received, the painting can be easily re-stretched onto wooden stretcher bars or framed by your local framer. If you would prefer a painting larger than 100 cm to be shipped stretched on its original stretcher bars, please contact me before purchasing at llilaartwork@gmail.com to discuss available shipping options.