JANUARY 3, 2025
Submissions open
May 31, 2025 8pm PDT
Submissions close
Week of July 14, 2025
Finalists Announced
September 27, 2025
Exhibition and voting opens
October 17, 2025
Voting closes
October 18, 2025
Winners announced
$3,800.00
Size
10" x 35" x 43"
Medium
Hammered copper
Wallow is a sculptural meditation on the weight of memory, the resilience of the human spirit, and the invisible scars left by the messy, nonlinear process of healing from displacement and trauma. Created from a reclaimed copper etching plate—once a tool for imprinting ideas and imagery—this piece carries both the literal and metaphorical impressions of transformation. Its surface bears the marks of a process that mirrors the mental states of rumination and repetition common in depression. Copper, with its ability to scar, tarnish, and yet persist, stands in for the human body and psyche—altered but intact.
1 in stock
Anna SzulSalt Spring Island, BC
Anna Karolina Szul is a Polish Canadian artist living on the stolen lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Rooted in etching and born of rupture, her practice is both reclamation and rebirth. From communist Poland to the raw edges of motherhood, homelessness, and harm, Anna shapes trauma into vessel and voice. Copper plates become reliquaries, scarred and luminous, holding memory like flame. Her sculptural works speak to survival, to the body’s archive of trauma and loss, and to the quiet courage of beginning again. Through layered forms and tender defiance, she searches for home—where belonging is carved from resilience, and healing is a handmade act.