Golden Mirage
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Title: Golden Mirage
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Size: 60 x 80 cm (15 mm canvas depth)
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Medium: Acrylic, mixed media on canvas
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Status: Original, unframed (ready to hang)
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Signed & comes with certificate of authenticity
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Shipping: Free in Europe
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Artist: Kabriela Arcane
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Price: €5000 (offers from galleries and institutions welcome)
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Prints available — contact for size & pricing
If you have any questions, please get in touch with me at kabrielaarcane@gmail.com
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They walk the desert, where the sand stretches into eternity and the sky is painted red with longing. The camels carry their riders silently — not merchants, but seekers.
Men whose eyes search for something no earthly treasure could ever contain. Their only belongings, tied to the saddles, are not filled with gold — the little they still have left carries with it the weight of a dream.
They move in silence, through golden dust and heat, where past and future melt into one soft, glowing present.
They do not yet have love. Only the journey. Only the sense that somewhere — perhaps beyond seven mountains and seas — someone waits. Or not someone, but a feeling.
Or perhaps only the reflection of the sun, reminding them of a touch that has not yet happened.
High above them, cutting through the crimson sky, is a solitary man upon a flying carpet. He does not fly to escape, nor for adventure, but carried by the force of longing within his heart — as though he were being drawn toward something only love can summon.
He is in no hurry, he glides — for trust does not move in haste, but in surrender. It is a quiet bow to every promise ever whispered under the stars, to every vow made by hearts that dared to believe in something greater than life itself.
And in the distance, above the clouds, the Taj Mahal stands not as a place, but as a memory of love that defies both time and space. It does not belong to this world — for true love is not bound by place or time.
It hovers in the in-between: between past and future, between hope and longing.
It is not a destination, but a memory of what was, and a promise of what may come.
It does not call, it remembers.
Everywhere in this painting, there is gold — not as wealth, but as a symbol of memory and faith. It is the soul’s alchemy, what remains when everything else is gone.
Palms grow against impossible odds, rooted in shimmering gold — a sign that even in the most barren places, love finds its ground, nourished by belief.
This painting tells of a journey not only across landscapes, but across lifetimes.
A path toward love that is not hurried, not loud, but unwavering.
Toward a love that need not be seen to be real.
Toward a love that waits.
There are moments when the soul moves faster than the body.
Moments when longing is stronger than reality itself. Out of such a feeling was born the painting “Golden Mirage” - a work that carries the silence of the desert, the memory of love, and the trust in the unseen.
How the painting was born
The idea was born from an inner longing. Not for someone lost, but for something that has not yet happened. Inspiration came from two directions: the mythical flight of Aladdin, and the tragic love story of the Taj Mahal.
These two tales merged into one - one speaks of the pursuit of dreams, the other of love that continues to live even when time and life have already torn it apart. The desert became the stage where both stories could meet.
What the artist wanted to express
In the desert, the camels and their riders do not carry goods, but only the remnants of their lives - with the most precious burden of all: the weight of a dream.
They are searching for something that no earthly treasure could ever contain.
High above them floats a solitary man on a flying carpet. He is not escaping. He is not chasing adventure. He is carried forward by the call of the heart, because only love has the power to lift a soul beyond the limits of reality.
And beyond the clouds hovers the Taj Mahal. It is not a destination, not a place to arrive at. It is a memory of love and a promise that does not die.
It reminds us that true love does not belong to the ground or to time - it lives in its own realm, accessible only through the heart.
Symbols and their meaning
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The desert – the journey of life, where the outer is scarce, yet the inner search is infinite.
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The riders and camels – pilgrims of the soul, seeking not wealth but meaning.
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The flying man – longing and trust, moving toward the unseen.
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The Taj Mahal in the clouds – love that lives on as memory and promise.
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Gold – not wealth, but the alchemy of the soul, what remains when all else is gone.
The artist’s thought
“This painting is a map of longing. Some of us fly in the light of hope, some still walk across the sands.
Yet in every heart lies the same question:
"Is someone, somewhere, waiting?”
"Golden Mirage” is not about one single story, but about an eternal feeling — love that has not yet been met, but which is already real, because the soul remembers it.
Kabriela Arcane
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