The exhibition what remains held a collection of works encompassing drawings and intaglio prints in the form of books, sculptural objects, and burned fragments. This body of images and objects by Carrie Phillips Kieser and Charley Young speak to loss, while asking how we might protect and care for what endures.
The exhibition is grounded in a vocabulary of line work that gives form to often-overlooked life—epiphytes, fungi, and the microcosms of the forest floor. Etched insect trails and delicate printed marks reflect a mindful practice of attention to the living world.
Mark by mark, a visual language unfolds—quiet, contemplative, and universal. These works invite stillness and presence, whispering across the walls, suspended and contained. They evoke the dualities of love and loss, beauty and the sublime, the mystery of the unknown within the known.
Through burned edges, gilded borders, and stitched fragments of delicate etchings, the artists explore materiality as a form of care. The work celebrates the small and the fragile, while urging reflection on what has been lost and how we might cherish what remains.
what remains was exhibited at the Craig Gallery, Dartmouth Nova Scotia in November 2025. Installation images by Wiebke Schroeder.