Hovli means a courtyard, the Uzbek dream. To have a hovli has always been an Uzbek dream for those who didn’t have it. No matter how Uzbeks like their extended families living in one hovli, they always want to move out after buying their own family hovli – a detached or semidetached house with the inner yard.
As for the painting, it feels like the artist was haunted by the image, the breath, the atmosphere of the Uzbek inner yard, a little paradise which opens behind a gate and which is hidden behind windowless walls. Such yards were filled with their own sweet sounds of birds and buzzing and humming of insects and minty smells of herbs and rich sweet smell of roses, maybe even a murmur of a little handmade ditch flowing through the yard or a little water pool dug out next to the ditch. Such handmade water details were meant to encapsulate the moisture for a relaxing and healthy microclimate in long warm and dry seasons, which started late spring and lasted through half of the autumn. And now the painting will reside in your mind as a beacon, as an oasis, as a little paradise, which you will search subconsciously in places, which you visit, or try and recreate it in your own home or hope that one day you will come to Uzbekistan and look for it here. I hope Uzbekistan will still have it not only in art but in reality.
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