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.
A reflection on fragility, grief and transformation through a mixed-media study of a single flower suspended in darkness.
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.
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.
Caoimhe Heaney explores the beauty of the breakdown—how change, even when painful, can open space for growth and new meaning. Her layered photomontages hold imperfection gently, finding quiet strength in vulnerability and revealing the unseen beauty and fragility that emerges through transformation.