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To Be Blue

$475.00 CAD

Tania LaCaria

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

17.20x21.20x0.50"

"She thinks about all the shades of blue
And how this colour
Was sentenced to sadness.

And she wonders what’s so sad
About the summer sky, in all its infinite magic?
About a bluejay that perched on a telephone line?
About the way the pool glistens in the morning?
About how the forget-me-nots carpet the hills?

And then she realized she misunderstood.
To be blue is not a terrible thing at all
The most beautiful things bring tears to her eyes.
Maybe, what they mean, is
To be blue is to feel it all, to see it all.
To be blue is just another part of the day.
Not bad at all, maybe even lucky."

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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.