This painting specifically brings to life slavic demon called Poludnica (Полудница), also known as Lady Midday or Noonwraith, a field spirit from Slavic agricultural mythology who haunted wheat fields during the scorching midday hours. Furthermore, working in layered acrylic on canvas, these Poludnica painting folklore art works embody the demon’s dual nature: both guardian of sacred rest and brutal enforcer of natural limits.

Moreover, the paintings channel the fevered heat of high summer, when the boundary between the physical and supernatural blurred for Eastern European field workers. Similarly, like the folklore itself, passed down through generations, distorted and enriched with each retelling. These canvases operate through accumulation and concealment, building meaning through archaeological layers of paint.