of solongs and ashes

of solongs and ashes is a visual stream of consciousness reflecting the deluge of memories swirling in Min Ma Naing’s mind, as she struggles to fill the void in her as an exile artist since leaving her homeland of Myanmar in July 2021. The artwork title references an extract within E.E.Cummings’s poignant poem “into the strenuous briefness”, which celebrates the brilliant and ephemeral qualities of life.