Shelly Kerten Maderer
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Lola lol — Mixed media on canvas, combining acrylic paint, textured modeling paste, mosaic elements, crystals, and sculptural three-dimensional details.
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Plate No. 29

Lola lol

Dimensions70x100 MaterialsMixed media on canvas, combining acrylic paint, textured modeling paste, mosaic elements, crystals, and sculptural three-dimensional details. SeriesSmile at the World

Lola lol was born from the idea of choosing wonder in a world that constantly asks us to focus on what is broken.

For years, I was told I lived in “La La Land” — a place where I preferred color, imagination and possibility over the endless noise of bad news. Over time, that phrase became something more than an escape. It became a conscious choice.

Lola stands between the sun and the flower, surrounded by color, movement and fragments of a world she creates for herself. She is playful, unapologetic and deliberately optimistic — not because she is unaware of reality, but because she refuses to let it define her.

Lola lol marks the beginning of Lala Land — an imagined world where joy, softness and dreaming are not signs of naïveté, but forms of strength.