Fragmentary Rooted 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

Fragmentary Rooted
From the In-between series

In this suspended landscape, the idea of home appears only in shards – half-remembered, half-erased. Rooting once implied certainty, a place where memory could settle and grow. Yet here the connection splinters, scattered like remnants of a story that can no longer be held intact. The terrain moves between presence and absence, belonging and estrangement, reflecting the experience of migration or cultural displacement, where the past survives only in fragments. What remains is soft yet persistent: an origin dispersed, altered, but still quietly alive.