A Pause Made of Ice FRAMED

This painting is part of the IN-BETWEEN exhibition  at the ART HOUSE CAFE GALLERY
555 Somerset Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, on view from August 1 to August 31, 2026.

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Original painting by Iya Carson

Certificate of Authenticity

Media: Watercolour

Paper: 100% cotton, Baohong, Rough, 300 g

Paints: Daniel Smith

Size:  15.5 x 15.5 (40 cm x 40 cm)

Year: 2025

Place: Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada

Framed, with final frame size 20.5 x 20.5 x 2.5 (52 x 52 x6.5 cm), double matting black/white

A Pause Made Of Ice
From the In-between series

Viewed through a car window during freezing rain in Ottawa, this work captures a moment when the world seems to hold its breath. Forms dissolve, edges soften, and the landscape becomes abstracted by ice and motion. What remains is not a place, but a sensation—suspended between clarity and obscurity, movement and stillness.

A Pause Made of Ice belongs to the In-Between series, where weather becomes a threshold and vision itself is altered. It speaks to the fragile intervals of winter, when the ordinary pauses, and perception drifts into quiet reflection.