INSPIRATION JURIED EXHIBITION

IRINA MACKAY

IRINA MACKAY

(Long Beach, MS)

What Remains

encaustic, 20 x 16 x 2 inches

Price: $1038

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Inspiration, for me, is not a stable state but a brief opening — something that appears at the edge of dissolution.

In this work, it does not arrive fully formed. It emerges from what is already breaking down — from residue, fragments, and overlooked matter. The image develops not by construction, but by release.

The butterflies are not symbols of transformation in a conventional sense. They are closer to traces — momentary formations that gather and disperse, unable to fully settle into form.

Inspiration here is fragile and unstable. It does not belong to the artist alone; it passes through, shaped by both internal tension and external eventuality.

What remains is not the source itself, but its echo — something partial, already fading, yet still present.

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