Magic Glasses

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

17.20x21.20x0.50"

"She pretends her glasses
Do more than bring life into focus.
She imagines they give her superpowers
To see herself
The way her mother sees her.

And she shifts from being the woman
Who’s unsure about it all
Into the girl who’s brave enough to try.
Instead of seeing her crows feet and fine lines
She sees a girl
Who’ll always be someone’s baby."

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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.