Enigma - Where the Planets Drift Low






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Enigma presents an original 2026 oil painting titled Where the Planets Drift Low, an 80 × 120 × 2.5 cm surrealist work hand-stretched on wood from Italy, signed on the reverse with a COA included, in pristine condition and weighing about 5 kg.
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Where the Planets Drift Low
I stand where the sky has forgotten its own name - red and ash collapsing behind me in loose, urgent strokes, while somewhere above my blue-grey hair, small worlds orbit without asking permission. A white bird crosses the dark as if it knows the way. My skirt lifts in a wind I cannot feel, pale and restless against the stillness I carry inside. The paint moves where I cannot, swirling outward in great turbulent sweeps, yet I remain - quiet, unhurried, watching you watch me dissolve into everything I was never meant to contain.
-- Dimensions: 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.
About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.
Where the Planets Drift Low
I stand where the sky has forgotten its own name - red and ash collapsing behind me in loose, urgent strokes, while somewhere above my blue-grey hair, small worlds orbit without asking permission. A white bird crosses the dark as if it knows the way. My skirt lifts in a wind I cannot feel, pale and restless against the stillness I carry inside. The paint moves where I cannot, swirling outward in great turbulent sweeps, yet I remain - quiet, unhurried, watching you watch me dissolve into everything I was never meant to contain.
-- Dimensions: 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.
About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.
