Elias Crane · No. 148
Mirror Horizon
Mirror Horizon dissolves the line between worlds. A vast, glassy sea reflects the sky above it so perfectly that the horizon vanishes, leaving a single small boat suspended in the centre of an image that no longer knows up from down. Crane exploits the oldest surrealist device — the doubling, the inversion, reality folded back upon itself — to produce something serene rather than disorienting. The lone vessel floats in a sphere of soft gradient light, equally at home in sea and sky, a tiny anchor of the real within the infinite. The reference is to the metaphysical seascape and to Magritte's mirrored skies, yet the mood is closer to meditation than to riddle. Without a fixed ground, the eye drifts, weightless, searching for orientation and finding only beauty. Calm, expansive and quietly transcendent, it offers a vision of suspension, of being held between two infinities. It is a painting that seems to slow time, a single boat adrift in a world made entirely of light.
An original oil painting on canvas by Elias Crane, painted to order — never a reproduction. Modern surrealism — dreamlike landscapes, impossible architecture and floating objects in luminous, uncanny skies, in the spirit of Dalí and Magritte.
Available sizes
- 50 × 60 cm
- 60 × 80 cm
- 80 × 100 cm
- 100 × 130 cm
- 120 × 160 cm
Or a custom size on request. Each canvas is painted to order.
- Artist
- Elias Crane
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Finish
- Unframed, ready to hang or frame
- Made
- To order, by hand
