Unearthing

A collection by Hannah Yanetsko

Unearthing explores the act of bringing something hidden into view. Each work feels excavated rather than composed, as though the forms have been searched for, pulled upward from beneath the surface through layering, resistance, and time.

The paintings emerge through a slow process of burial and revelation. Wax, oil stick, and acrylic are built and disrupted in succession, allowing surfaces to hold the evidence of excavation. Areas are obscured, exposed, scarred, and rediscovered, mirroring the emotional and spiritual process beneath the work itself.

This body of work was shaped through a season of inwardness, unearthing hidden places hungry for the light. Prayer, endurance, and deep personal perseverance became inseparable from the physical act of painting. The forms feel unearthed from somewhere beneath certainty, carrying traces of tension, persistence, and quiet becoming.

If Genesis held the feeling of formation and becoming, Unearthing lives further down in the deep. In the descent. In the reaching beneath the surface for what has remained hidden. In what is brought upward slowly through pressure, persistence, and faithful return.

Central to the work is the idea of fruitful endurance, the belief that remaining present through uncertainty, silence, and searching can still produce something living.

Unearthing considers what is brought forth slowly, faithfully, and often invisibly before it is finally seen.

Available works from Unearthing can be viewed through the HSYA Studio Gallery.