Artist: Neyda De La Peña
Title: Carrying Dreams
Year: 2025
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36" × 24"
Edition: Unique work
Price: USD 2,500
 
symbolic contemporary painting
 
Description
Carrying Dreams is a contemporary symbolic painting that explores memory, inner journeys, and the emotional weight of dreams we carry through life. Through a solitary figure and the presence of bare branches bound to her back, the artwork reflects the human experience of holding onto memories, hopes, and unfinished stories.
 
“Carrying Dreams” was born from distant moments, from stories that once lived vividly and slowly drifted into the quiet desert of forgetting.
Every brushstroke holds a memory.
Every layer of texture carries a dream waiting to be set free.
Created with oil and textured plaster, this symbolic artwork invites viewers to pause and reflect on their own memories and aspirations.
This piece is meant to find the person who recognizes a part of their own story within it.