Horizon Blue: Strokes of Memories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798262805723)

Michael, a once-renowned painter, has not picked up a brush in half a year. Trapped in the silence of his small studio, surrounded by unfinished canvases and relics of a once-thriving artistic life, he struggles with a past that refuses to let go. The old Adrian 15M helmet hanging on his wall-its color the sorrowful Horizon Blue-reminds him that beauty and tragedy are often inseparable.

As he watches the world from his tattered armchair, Michael reflects on the lessons he once taught his students: that art is about deception, control, and victory-the ability to guide a viewer's eye, to make them see what the artist desires. But now, his own vision is clouded by memories of Paris, of a mysterious woman in the stairwell, and of Lazar-the enigmatic man who sees in Michael something even he cannot recognize.

In a novel blending deep introspection, philosophical musings on art and fate, and an exploration of the weight of time, Horizon Blue paints a moving portrait of a man battling against stagnation, regret, and the inexorable pull of the past.

For readers who appreciate literary fiction that delves into the nature of art, identity, and memory, Horizon Blue is an unforgettable journey into the mind of a painter who must rediscover the will to create-or risk fading into the background of his own life.