This triptych Mama is my personal story. It is rooted in the experience of a double loss: first, my biological mother left me in an orphanage, and later, my foster parents turned away from me, and I lost my family once again. Much time has passed, and the pain of this double loss has become a part of my life. Only Polyphantom-Art became the language that helped me tell this story.

To contrast illusion and reality, I use the instability of forms. In the side panels, I deliberately break color pairs, removing the primary hue and leaving only a solitary, shimmering yellow-gold afterimage... Disharmony and the sense of loss are expressed through this lonely afterimage. It is the visual embodiment of absence, where emptiness is just as vital as light.

In the left panel, my life energy pulses, yet at the very center is a void-like grey spot. This is the place where a mother should have been, but there is nothing. On the right, a glowing silhouette appears. This is not a real person, but an image I created for myself while observing other happy families. It is surrounded by emptiness, because fantasies cannot replace the real past.

The center of the triptych is the birth point of life. Here, a deep blue "gives birth" to a vibrating golden yellow. As a mother gives birth to a child, as an image gives birth to an afterimage... This is a symbol of how one gives life to another. It is my gratitude to my mothers for the fact that I was born and that I am alive.

The Triptych Mama 100x70x2, 100x50, 100x70, Oil on Canvas, 2025

Olga Stein is an artist and the creator of the avant-garde movement Polyphantom-Art

INSIGHT. 70 x 100 cm. Oil. Canvas. 2025

Olga Stein is an artist and the creator of the avant-garde movement Polyphantom-Art

"Self-Portrait with a Golf Ball", Project, 2026, 96 x 58 cm., collage, oil paint, cardboard, golf ball

About the artwork:

The collage features a fragment of an artist's replica of the "Pike" ("Schuka") mosaic panel (2023, Nagatinsky Zaton metro station).

The author of the original mosaic is M. S. Kozlov, a Russian monumental artist, designer, head of his own art studio, and a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

https://maxkozlovart.ru/


Rights: Official permission has been obtained from the artist to use the visual quotation of the mosaic.

Olga Stein is an artist and the creator of the avant-garde movement Polyphantom-Art
Extraction, Series, 4 Items, Oil, Canvas, 70 x 140 cm, 2026
"The orange-yellow fantom", 100 х 160 cm., banner print. 2026

"The Arrow of Time", 90 x 550 cm. Print. Vinilbanner. 2026

Olga Stein is an artist and the creator of the avant-garde movement Polyphantom-Art
"EUREKA", Sculptural Series, Project, 3D Printing, rPLA, 3 Objects, 2026
" To bite or n0t to b1te?"

Project, instalation ,3D rPLA print 50х18 см., spinning rod 3 м. 2026
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