Mossy Awe - with passepartout (2024) Photograph by Inna Etuvgi

🔴 Availability Note: This specific matted edition is currently not held in gallery stock; however, it remains available as a bespoke studio commission.


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MOSSY AWE

Matted 
Fine Art Photography Print by Inna Etuvgi

Image size: 20x30cm
Mat: 30x40cm


In the quiet woods of Sweden, a tiny moss sporophyte reaches for a sunbeam, catching a warmth that feels deeply familiar.

Through my macro lens, these tiny moss sporophytes seem to be "a little people" basking in the light, and I feel their search for warmth as if it were my own. I magnify these "little people" to a human scale. This isn't just about beauty; it’s about challenging the idea that we are the center of the world. By bringing them to our size, I emphasize their vital, yet often unnoticed, role in the ecosystem and the resilience they share with us.

My perspective is rooted in my Arctic upbringing, where survival depends on a profound sensitivity to nature’s most subtle signals. This drives my radical empathy—a direct sensory resonance where I project my own longings onto these small life forms, recognizing that we are all part of the same vast, interconnected story.


PRINT INFORMATION:


* Medium: Giclée print on Canson Fine Art paper.
The print is matted in Ph-neutral passepartout 30x40cm + backing.

* Edition size: Limited to 25 copies;

* Details: Signed, numbered, and printed by the artist, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity;

* Dimensions: Image size 20x30cm, mat size 30x40cm (fits standard frames).




ABOUT THE ARTIST

Inna Etuvgi is a Swedish-Chukchi art photographer and digital artist, internationally recognised as an Arte Laguna Prize finalist (Venice) and a recipient of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee grant. Born in a remote Arctic village in Chukotka and trained in technical cybernetics, she began her artistic practice in 2020 and has since exhibited across Europe — in Venice, London, Barcelona, Palermo, and San Marino.

Etuvgi lives with aphantasia — she cannot see images in her mind. Her camera and AI serve as extensions of her visual imagination, allowing her to create what she cannot picture internally. Through macro photography she enters the hidden worlds of mosses, lichens, and dewdrops; through digital art she gives form to psychological states and inner archetypes. Both are rooted in a deep sensitivity shaped by her Chukchi upbringing — an instinct to feel into every living thing.

As art critic Tabish Khan notes: "Her work transports us to other worlds — both real and imaginary, but always in harmony with nature."

Materials used:

fine art paper, archival pigment inks, Ph-neutral passepartout

Details:

• Photograph on Paper
• From a limited edition of 25
• Size: 30 x 40 x 0.3cm (unframed) / 20 x 30cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Flowers and plants

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