Through the Steam of Memory

Title: Through the Steam of Memory

Medium: Acrylic on authentic vintage USSR road map, mounted on stretched canvas

Size: 50 x 40 cm

Series: Roads of Memory

In Through the Steam of Memory, Irina Kurganskaya transforms a vintage road map into a passage through time. A powerful steam train, rendered in luminous hyperrealism, emerges from the mist — its metallic surface and glowing details evoking both the industrial past and the romance of endless travel.

This painting belongs to the Roads of Memory series — artworks created over authentic Soviet road maps that once guided travelers across vast distances. Beneath each layer of paint lies a real history of motion, discovery, and connection.

Here, the rails become lines of memory, and the steam becomes the breath of time itself — a tribute to journeys that shaped generations.

Unframed and signed on both front and back. Ready to hang or frame according to your taste.