Soft Edges

Flashe and acrylic on 300 gsm archival paper.

17.20x21.20x0.50"

"It really does happen like they say:
One day, a switch flips.

Like a sharp corner that’s been softened over time.
A rocky cliffside that’s matured into a grassy hill.
When seeing red turns to blue and then green.

And she knows this gentle ache
That replaced the throbbing agony
Doesn’t mean the pain has been erased.
It means she’s paid her dues, felt it all
Treaded, swam, rafted, bobbed through the rough tides.

Until she's no longer sentenced to a lifetime of sadness.
She put it down. She got up.
And walked forward."

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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.