Issue Three: Resistance Isn’t Futile

February 2025

Inner Child

Anna Kirby

Anna says that Inner Child represents

… resisting the urge to silence my inner child/ inner intuition …

About the artist

Anna Kirby

Anna Kirby is a community college English instructor living in North Carolina, USA. Her collages have been selected for juried exhibitions across the country. She makes her collages using second-hand books, scissors, and glue dots, and she accents her pieces with oil paints. Anna Kirby’s collages are sensory poems that express the complex emotions surrounding child loss, infertility, and female identity. She is inspired by the harmony of complementary colors.