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"Transcending Borders" Linocut (2026)Linocut by Alena Reit
24 x 33 x 1cm (unframed) / 20 x 20cm (actual image size)
£104.77
Artwork description
Limited edition print, A4
Black–blue
Transcending Borders is part of the project The Lost Choice, a body of work dedicated to situations in which choice formally exists but is, in reality, impossible. The project explores the female experience of living under the pressure of circumstances, social roles, and responsibility — when decisions are made not from freedom, but from necessity.
In this print, a woman’s face emerges from the water, framed by wooden structures that resemble fragments of a pier or a boundary. Her eyes are obscured, her body partially submerged. Fish and underwater forms surround her, dissolving the line between surface and depth. The horizon stretches behind her, suggesting distance, migration, and the idea of crossing — geographical, emotional, internal.
The black–blue palette intensifies the atmosphere of immersion and transition. Water becomes both a space of suffocation and of transformation — a threshold state between what has already happened and what is yet to be formed.
The works in The Lost Choice address the past as something completed but not erased — a trauma that remains present, yet no longer defines the whole. At the center of the project lies a moment of inner turning: emerging from a difficult experience, growing through it, building a new foundation and distance toward what cannot be changed.
Transcending Borders speaks not about being trapped in pain, but about maturation and transformation that occur despite the absence of real choice.
Materials used:
paper, printinh ink
Details:
- Linocut on Paper
- From a limited edition of 35
- Size: 24 x 33 x 1cm (unframed) / 20 x 20cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Graphic, illustrative and typographic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#woman#water#feminism#transition
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Artwork description
Limited edition print, A4
Black–blue
Transcending Borders is part of the project The Lost Choice, a body of work dedicated to situations in which choice formally exists but is, in reality, impossible. The project explores the female experience of living under the pressure of circumstances, social roles, and responsibility — when decisions are made not from freedom, but from necessity.
In this print, a woman’s face emerges from the water, framed by wooden structures that resemble fragments of a pier or a boundary. Her eyes are obscured, her body partially submerged. Fish and underwater forms surround her, dissolving the line between surface and depth. The horizon stretches behind her, suggesting distance, migration, and the idea of crossing — geographical, emotional, internal.
The black–blue palette intensifies the atmosphere of immersion and transition. Water becomes both a space of suffocation and of transformation — a threshold state between what has already happened and what is yet to be formed.
The works in The Lost Choice address the past as something completed but not erased — a trauma that remains present, yet no longer defines the whole. At the center of the project lies a moment of inner turning: emerging from a difficult experience, growing through it, building a new foundation and distance toward what cannot be changed.
Transcending Borders speaks not about being trapped in pain, but about maturation and transformation that occur despite the absence of real choice.
Materials used:
paper, printinh ink
Details:
- Linocut on Paper
- From a limited edition of 35
- Size: 24 x 33 x 1cm (unframed) / 20 x 20cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Graphic, illustrative and typographic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#woman#water#feminism#transition