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.

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Artist
Enigma
Sold with frame
No
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Where the Planets Drift Low
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
80 cm
Width
120 cm
Weight
5 kg
Style
Surrealism
Period
2020+
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