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: 木製シャーシ上に専門業者が手作業で張り付け
-- Framing: なし(外枠なし);展示用に塗装されたエッジ
-- Medium: 上質なキャンバスに高級画家用油彩
-- Style: 心理的シュルレアリズム、滑らかな筆致
-- Authentication: 裏面に「Enigma」と署名、題名と年が記載
-- Condition: 傷なし/スタジオ関連ワークショップから発送
-- COA: 手書きの真作証明書同梱
-- Shipping: 専用保護梱包、完全追跡と保険付きの Catawiki Smart Shipping
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: 木製シャーシ上に専門業者が手作業で張り付け
-- Framing: なし(外枠なし);展示用に塗装されたエッジ
-- Medium: 上質なキャンバスに高級画家用油彩
-- Style: 心理的シュルレアリズム、滑らかな筆致
-- Authentication: 裏面に「Enigma」と署名、題名と年が記載
-- Condition: 傷なし/スタジオ関連ワークショップから発送
-- COA: 手書きの真作証明書同梱
-- Shipping: 専用保護梱包、完全追跡と保険付きの Catawiki Smart Shipping
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.

