Where Roots Remember — Original Mixed Media on Canvas | Rita Irvin
Where Roots Remember — Original Mixed Media on Canvas | Rita Irvin
She sits at the water's edge, back turned to everything but herself.
A koi drifts past overhead, gold and coral against a sky stitched from old maps — streets she's walked, rivers she's crossed, places that made her who she is. A compass points every direction at once. A key dangles from a chain, unclaimed.
Beneath her, roots spill down into the water like memory made visible — tangled, searching, holding on to what the mind has long since let go of. The moon watches, patient, the way it always does when someone is trying to remember who they were before the world got its hands on them.
Where roots remember what the heart forgets.
Where Roots Remember is a meditation on origin — on the parts of us that stay rooted in a place, a person, a version of ourselves, even after memory fades. Vintage map fragments ground the piece in real geography, while the koi and moon carry the same dreamlike symbolism found throughout Rita's work: transformation, intuition, and the pull between what we know and what we feel.
- Medium: Acrylic and oil, mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions: 30 × 40 inches
- Gallery wrapped, ready to hang — no frame needed
- One of a kind original, signed by the artist
About the Artist
Rita Irvin is a self-taught mixed-media artist born and raised in West Berlin, Germany. Her work explores memory, emotion, and transformation through layered textures, surreal symbolism, and dreamlike imagery. Influenced by Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Georgia O'Keeffe, Rita developed her own visual language without formal training — shaped by years in interior design and a lifelong immersion in art and architecture. Every piece is a one-of-a-kind original, made by hand and never reproduced.
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