Against Compliance: Disobedience as Artistic Strategy in a Time of Permanent Crisis
Lucy Lambe examines artistic disobedience as a sustained method of resistance within conditions of permanent political and social crisis.
Kauguri Garden in the Winter Dark
Katrīna Tračuma reflects on painting a beloved Kauguri garden en plein air as winter cold, sunset and darkness transform the scene.
What Is Real and What Is Not
Enrique Hernandez explores the uncanny through charcoal drawings that move between recognition, distortion and psychological unease.
Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series and the Rupestrian Carvings
Anne Martin Walsh considers spirituality, exile and identity in Ana Mendieta’s Silueta series and Rupestrian carvings
Where Beauty and Sorrow Are Inseparable
A reflection on fragility, grief and transformation through a mixed-media study of a single flower suspended in darkness.
Nua Collective Releases Anecdotes Issue 03
Nua Collective releases Anecdotes Issue 03, a 64-page contemporary art publication featuring artist essays, visual practice and creative reflections.
The Giving Project: After Hours
Josh Stein’s The Giving Project: After Hours follows the relationships that emerged from giving artworks to strangers. Through photographs taken in late-night and off-hours spaces, the project documents where these encounters have led—across lower Manhattan, Monmouth County, and the Napa Valley—turning ephemeral exchange into personal record.
How to express a feeling
Enrique Hernandez reflects on how to express emotion when words are not enough. Through drawing, painting, resin, gouache and expressive lines, the work explores raw feeling, texture, vulnerability, eroticism, and psychological depth—holding the tension between strength, exposure, and the crude reality of human fragility.
and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self
Katrīna Tračuma’s “and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self” unpacks the “Circle of Life” meme as a cyclical evolution story—comic, bleak, and strangely tender. The series visualises a modern domestic dinosaur, linking present life to ancestral death, from dino nuggets to wrapped flesh.
Ancient Ground
In Ancient Ground, Anne Martin Walsh reflects on vestiges and indentations—traces in the landscape formed by human intervention and the earth’s natural processes. The accompanying work layers collage, acrylic and oil, holding marks like evidence: part history, part erosion, part memory. Read the full piece in Anecdotes Issue 01.
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