At first glance, Broken Rainbow radiates like an explosion of emotion — a storm of color, passion, and contradiction. It is a painting that seems to both celebrate and mourn the human spirit at once. The canvas bleeds with vivid reds, deep greens, glowing yellows, and the occasional soothing blue — yet these colors do not simply coexist; they collide, merge, and fragment, like the memory of joy shattered by sorrow.
Rain Bordo’s language is not that of calm harmony, but of sincere chaos — a kind of visual poetry born out of emotional dissonance. The red dominates, not as a symbol of violence, but as a heart still beating despite its wounds. From that intensity emerges green — fragile, hopeful, like the earth trying to heal after fire. The blue is faint but persistent, representing perhaps the faint pulse of empathy that endures through all destruction.
Each drip and splash in Broken Rainbow feels intentional yet uncontrolled, echoing the way emotions flow through us — never perfectly shaped, never confined. The vertical streaks resemble tears that have learned to stand tall. They fall, but they also rise. They descend with gravity, yet they give structure to the painting’s fragile balance. There is something deeply human in that movement — a reminder that even when our inner colors mix into chaos, beauty can emerge from imperfection.
The title Broken Rainbow is a paradox full of tenderness. A rainbow is meant to unite the sky after rain — a bridge between despair and renewal. But when that bridge is broken, what remains is not emptiness, but truth. Balaban invites the viewer to face the fracture — to acknowledge that beauty often carries scars, that color itself can ache. In this sense, the painting becomes a mirror for empathy: it does not ask to be understood, only to be felt.
Standing before this work, one feels both the ache of division and the whisper of resilience. It’s as if the artist captured the moment right before healing — when pain still glows, but the first light of forgiveness begins to appear. The splattered patterns evoke the pulse of humanity — unpredictable, raw, and full of heart.
Rain Bordo’s Broken Rainbow is not just a painting; it’s an emotional terrain — a testimony to endurance, and a love letter to every soul that has ever been torn yet continues to shine. It reminds us that even when the spectrum of our lives fractures, the light passing through those cracks can still reveal something beautiful, something profoundly empathetic — something human. ❤️🔥
Rain Bordo 