Emily Ciecka

Titles of works can be descriptive or clever or totally unrelated. What’s your favorite title of a piece you’ve named?

As of right now, it has to be “Tangled Grace”. This piece holds a lot of personal meaning for me. As I created it, I found myself reflecting on my own life and moving through certain experiences in real time, which gave the work an added layer of depth. It became a meditation on the complexity of grace, how something so beautiful can also be complicated, and at times even misused or misunderstood. The simplicity of the title invites the viewer to look beyond the visually engaging imagery of two intertwined snakes and roses, and to ask deeper questions: What does this mean? And what might it mean for me?