Dara Theodora’s process is instinctual. She uses spontaneous techniques like sancai-inspired dripping, yielding to the natural fall of paint instead of controlling it. She layers her limited palette into soft textures, often in a spiraled composition. Then, her heightened sense of pareidolia uncovers figures and shapes within. Dara accepts uneasy echoes of movement in the form of third limbs or other abstractions and creates strange dreamscapes that grapple with the transient nature of life and the stories humans keep repeating.

Dara Theodora’s process is instinctual. She uses spontaneous techniques like sancai-inspired dripping, yielding to the natural fall of paint instead of controlling it. She layers her limited palette into soft textures, often in a spiraled composition. Then, her heightened sense of pareidolia uncovers figures and shapes within. Dara accepts uneasy echoes of movement in the form of third limbs or other abstractions and creates strange dreamscapes that grapple with the transient nature of life and the stories humans keep repeating.