Submitting My Work to an Online Exhibition — A Small but Real Step

For a long time, my collages existed only in my own space. I shared them online, but submitting them to an exhibition always felt like something other people did. I was never quite sure if my work really belonged there.

During the course Poetry and Place with Fibre Arts Take Two, something shifted. Eva spoke about a place that is important to her — the Danish coast — and it made me think about the places that have stayed with me.

I realized that my collages were already connected to memory and atmosphere. The translucent papers and colors reminded me of light in church windows. I had not planned this. I discovered it while working.

That realization changed how I looked at my own process. I understood that I was not only arranging shapes and colors. I was responding, adjusting, and waiting for the image to reveal something. The work needed time, and I needed to trust it.

Submitting the pieces was unexpectedly difficult. Choosing the works, photographing them properly, writing about them, and preparing the files took much more effort than I expected. I also noticed how many small decisions are part of showing work publicly. The challenge was not only technical — it was internal. I had to stop asking whether I was allowed to do this and simply do it.

In the end, the submission itself became the important moment. Not because I know what the result will be, but because I realized I can take my work outside my own environment. Itmade the idea of exhibitions feel real and reachable.

This experience did not suddenly change my work. Instead, it changed my relationship to it. I now see these collages as part of an ongoing process rather than isolated experiments. They mark a point where I began to trust that something personal can appear through practice.

The exhibition The Rhythm of Becoming will be online in early March.
I will add the link here once it is published.