In Dreams, a child figure occupies the sky above a vertical cityscape, positioned at a scale that disrupts logic. The skyline recedes beneath him, its rigid structures softened by clouds and light.
 
The tennis racket is held casually, yet it reads as instrument — a sign of discipline, ambition, and projected trajectory. Play and aspiration coexist. The child is neither escaping the city nor opposing it; he rises within its architecture.
 
Red sneakers punctuate the composition with urgency, grounding the scene in contemporary reality. The upward perspective amplifies the figure’s presence, suggesting not fantasy but expansion — the enlargement of possibility.
 
Rather than illustrating imagination as naïve escapism, the painting frames it as force. The sky becomes a field of agency. The city, a backdrop for becoming.
 
Here, dreams are not fragile.
They occupy space.
 
Original artwork by Gala Bond
27 ½ x 27 ½ in | 70 x 70 cm
Oil, linen canvas