Acrylic, coloured pencil and wax pastel on wood

20.32 × 25.4 × 5.08cm

2025

(@alannanananana)

25% of all sales will be donated to Mutual Aid Sudan

Alanna creates abstract work that explores trauma and connection through an embodied lens. She is interested in how trauma lives in the body, how it interrupts the flow of life, and how its impact echoes across communities and generations. Her work investigates the complexities of human relationships — the ways power, compromise, and intimacy shape our inner and outer worlds.

Using abstract ribbon-like forms, she creates visual metaphors for emotional dynamics. These flowing shapes are often pushed, pulled, interrupted, or entangled — revealing moments of tension, resistance, or surrender. Ribbons twist, split, converge, and spiral in a visual choreography of give and take.

Her drawings are built slowly through meditative layers of crosshatched colored pencil and wax pastel. This process produces soft, textured surfaces that invite viewers to look closely, slow down, and remain present. Through this work, Alanna offers a space for emotional resonance — a quiet unfolding of memory, darkness, and the possibility of light.