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As a child, I would watch my mother patch up worn garments …

« Blurred Lines of Despair » explores the tangible manifestation of emotional unraveling.

With the Rose Cochon series, Éliane-Catrie Blouin Achim expresses a profound sense of despair.

Half of the world’s coral reefs have vanished since 1950.

The brooch “Shining Despair” reflects the contrast between life’s darkness and the light that endures within it.

Out of the feeling of longing for warmth and the close relationship to a beloved person …

Our ability to transform things is so powerful …

I am preoccupied with the unpredictable and abnormal aspects of life.

The Earth flexes its muscle, the applied concrete ‘urban skin’ breaks open and a microcosm of life is created in the cracks in the pavement.

As an immigrant mother and artist from South Korea, my work reflects the dualities of migration …