Mukhammaddiyor Muminov
The Return to Self, 2025
Composite work of 9 canvases
Oil on canvas
47 × 47 cm  || 18 1/2 × 18 1/2 in
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This miniature is the final work in the series “Where Daffodils Do Not Grow.” In the culmination of the story, the heroine finally finds her path to freedom: she seems to rise through her own swamp – heavy, viscous, dark, and yet she keeps reaching upward, toward dawn.
That is why the work refers to water lilies: they grow in the very same places. In life, they are fragile creatures – a strong current would simply break them. So lilies choose still water, where they have a chance to push all the way to the surface. Just like the heroine: in silence, through her own difficulties, she ascends to a place where she can finally breathe.

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