Never Ending Growth

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

17.20x21.20x0.50"

"Everything that lives
Grows. Ages. Expands. Contracts.
The trees, the flowers, the smallest of insects,
Even the algae that coats the stones by the river
Is growing, multiplying, moving.

To stop growing, is to stop living.
So why, oh why,
My sweet darling,
Did you ever think you’d finally arrive
At a time and place
In which you’d be done with growing?
Done with expanding, learning, pivoting, moving?

To be here,
Is to be blessed with the never-ending certainty
Of continued growth
For all your days."

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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.