Head and Heart

Acrylic, flashe, coloured pencil on 300gsm archival paper.

17.20x21.20x0.50"

"In her head
She understands why it turned out this way.
But in her heart
She’ll always wonder what else could have been.

Funny how the head and heart
Are connected, part of the same body
But they seem to live
In two different worlds."

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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.