Our work: Stella Dreaming Marsi
A Journey to Marsi. An Artist Enters a Wooded Meadow is an exhibition exploring artists’ encounters with Latvia’s rare and biodiverse wooded meadows. Presented by the Latvian Fund for Nature. Skuja Braden participate with Stella Dreaming Marsi (2026), a sculpted and painted porcelain work.
We went to Marsi to experience one of Latvia's remarkable wooded meadows. Stella came along, but she wasn't nearly as enchanted by the cows as we were. They were enormous, mysterious creatures, and she was genuinely frightened of them.
So rather than turn Stella into a brave little cowherd, we let her dream.
In Stella's version of Marsi, the cows remain firmly on the ground while naked women float through the sky like clouds. Stella looks out from her porcelain dreamscape, somewhere between curiosity and apprehension, as the familiar world becomes wonderfully strange.
Perhaps we all experience the same landscape differently. We see the beauty of the meadow; Stella sees the cows. And somewhere between the two, imagination takes flight.
