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by Maeve McGrath
In The Child Within, Maeve McGrath shapes a hauntingly tender portrait of resilience—of a child navigating the aftermath of trauma and the slow return of buried memory. Drywall becomes a vessel of emotion, scored with fine striations and sweeping arcs that mimic both fingerprints and fractures. Embedded within the surface, a hidden face emerges—barely there, yet pulsing with presence. Muted tones of violet, ash, and ochre evoke the quiet ache of recollection, where each recovered memory carries both weight and release. McGrath does not depict pain directly; instead, she honours the strength it takes to survive it—the resilience forged not in the moment of harm, but in the long, silent reckoning that follows.
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