How Good It Feels

Flashe, acrylic, coloured pencil on 300gsm archival paper.

17.20x21.20x0.50"

"To find comfort in your own company.
To smile at yourself in the mirror.
To admire the lines on your face
That tell a million stories of every snort-laugh,
Every sob,
Every time you told a story
And your eyes lit up like starlight.

In this era that worships the youth
And celebrates immortality,
Embracing aging
Is an act of rebellion."

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About this collection:

An Ode to Joy started out as a goodbye-love-letter and visual homage to the artist’s studio space (that she named Joy), that was built for her by her father and family in 2022. When Tania sold her home and her belongings, and had to say goodbye to her beloved studio in summer 2025, she found herself overcome with conflicting emotions of grief and excitement.

An Ode To Joy is a celebration of new beginnings, an honouring of endings, and a realization that memories are always in motion, changing and fleeting, even if they were “captured” in the past, memories are never fully realized in the present.