Ostia Antica Landscape is new oil painting from my Roman Ruins paintings series.
Ostia Antica is well preserved archeological site of the ancient Rome port at the ostium of the river Tiber. I’ve started to paint the series of landscapes depicting archeological site near Rome, Ostia Antica, just in the times of spring outbreak of the Covid – 19 pandemic that has changed our world so immensely.
Time of isolation has been a sort of an artificial bubble, keeping me at home. Which I’ve loved as I basically love being at home. Yet in my subconsciousness, there has been that latent feeling of being trapped in a way. And that strange feeling has led me to the unusual perception that my travel memories have become vivid. It quite possibly has been a sort of escapism. Daydreaming about the places visited at happy summers I’ve remembered the strong colors of a Roman summer. Closing my eyes I’ve been able to smell the flowering trees of the early summer in Rome. I’ve heard the cicadas in the pine trees and the deep shade of old cypresses. Suddenly I could walk down the cobbled streets of the ancient port near the old city. Immersing myself into the scenery of Ostia Antica I’ve imagined the merchants calling the customers, kids playing with a barking dog behind the corner of the bricked house and down there at Via del Sole I could smell the freshly baked bread…..and all that colors have been so vivid I suddenly could not tell the difference between the reality and the happy memories from the far ago……..
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