“Before waves brush our bloody feet.”
— Lilou Saunders, Poet of ‘Here’s Why it’s Not Easy to Leave You’

ARS Poetica Exhibition 2026
Flywheel Fine Art Gallery
Hoodsport, WA

潮と灰の間
Between Tide & Ash

Anne Kirsten Fjeld - Artist
Encaustic and cold wax with Shou Sugi Ban panel

Between Tide and Ash explores the uneasy terrain of love grown heavy with struggle. A woman moves along a shifting shoreline, pulled between duty and the instinct urging her forward. The tide carries away the paw prints in the wet sand, yet faint impressions remain—evidence that some journeys cannot be erased, only softened with time.

Nearby, a small heart lies abandoned in the sand, a fragile marker of devotion that has endured more than it was meant to hold.

Above her, a spectral wolf lifts its voice. Not a threat, but a guide.

Its distant howl suggests that courage does not always arrive as confrontation. Sometimes it emerges quietly, in the moment a woman realizes she must remain whole in order to guide those she loves through the dark.

The charred edges of the panel, shaped through Shou Sugi Ban, hold this tension—fire marking the surface yet strengthening it.

In this landscape of tide and ash, instinct becomes a compass, and the wolf’s call carries her back to herself.

Anne Kirsten Fjeld: www.annefjeld.art [email protected]