_Between Streets and Sky_ captures the vibrant rhythm of downtown Montreal through a fluid interplay of architecture, color, and movement. Rather than presenting the city as a fixed urban landscape, the painting transforms familiar structures into an emotional and shifting visual experience.

Layers of blue, violet, red, and luminous yellow dissolve the boundaries between buildings, streets, and figures. The human presence appears fragmented and almost fleeting, emphasizing the constant movement of the city and the transient nature of everyday encounters.

Created with expressive brushwork and palette knife techniques, the painting balances recognizable architectural forms with spontaneous textures and abstract gestures. Light and color become structural elements, creating a visual rhythm that moves across the canvas.

The work reflects my ongoing exploration of urban perception, memory, and temporality. _Between Streets and Sky_presents Montreal not simply as a place, but as a lived sensation—a city reconstructed through movement, color, and memory.

Between Streets and Sky

_Vieux-Port de Montréal, l’hiver_ explores the shifting boundary between place, memory, and perception. Inspired by a winter scene at Montreal’s Old Port, the painting moves away from literal representation to reconstruct the landscape through color, texture, and fragmented reflections.

Dominated by luminous blues and punctuated by unexpected flashes of orange, red, and gold, the work evokes a sense of warmth persisting within the cold. The Ferris wheel emerges almost like a fading memory, while the water below dissolves the city into layers of movement and light.

Working with both palette knife and brush, I build the surface through expressive marks, scraped textures, and overlapping layers of oil paint. Rather than depicting a fixed moment, the work seeks to capture the emotional rhythm of experiencing a familiar place—how an image remains, shifts, and transforms in memory.

The painting reflects my ongoing interest in perception, temporality, and the emotional reconstruction of landscape. Through a poetic vision of Montreal, the work reveals a city that appears cold on the surface yet remains deeply charged with warmth, light, and movement.

**Medium:** Oil on canvas  
**Artist:** Sylvaine  
**Location / Subject:** Old Port of Montreal, Canada

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