<![CDATA[Kirenya: ⧉ Gallery]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/s/galleryhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qINI!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19eb048-fe0d-478e-9730-9ca65ccd4a4b_1280x1280.pngKirenya: ⧉ Galleryhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/s/gallerySubstackSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:30:03 GMT<![CDATA[Veil, Cocoon, Apparition]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/veil-cocoon-apparition-fc5https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/veil-cocoon-apparition-fc5Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:33:05 GMTI wanted this one to blur the boundary between person, garment, symbol, and ghost. These images lean into drapery, suspension, fashion, apparition, and the slow transformation of form.

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]]><![CDATA[Tangled Crowns]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/tangled-crownshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/tangled-crownsSat, 13 Jun 2026 09:38:04 GMT
Three figures in bright pink robes stand closely together in blue water, with dark faces partly obscured by tangled looped growths or hair-like forms around their heads against a bright blue background.
Three figures hold a close, quiet formation while tangled crowns obscure the face, turning stillness into a guarded form of relation.




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Filed under: The Congregation of Selves

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]]><![CDATA[Still Study • Perpetual Not]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-still-study-perpetual-nothttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-still-study-perpetual-notFri, 05 Jun 2026 16:08:45 GMT

Five sketches of movement for The Perpetual Not, where the body appears, fades, reaches, and resists being fixed by a single act of perception.

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]]><![CDATA[Visual Notes for Bones, Broken and Nursed ]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-visual-notes-for-bones-broken-andhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-visual-notes-for-bones-broken-andMon, 01 Jun 2026 17:07:08 GMTVisual notes from the threshold of Bones and Broken and Nursed, where witness, body, memory, and official meaning begin to trouble each other.

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]]><![CDATA[Halo Court]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/halo-courthttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/halo-courtSun, 31 May 2026 13:03:19 GMTI wanted this room to feel devotional without becoming fixed. These bodies carry loops, halos, crowns, wings, and moonlight, creating a field of images that feels sacred, theatrical, and quietly uncanny.

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]]><![CDATA[Haloed Assembly]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/haloed-assemblyhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/haloed-assemblySat, 30 May 2026 14:22:21 GMT
Five repeated bearded figures in bright pink robes stand back-to-back in blue water, with a single pale circular ring hovering above their heads and circular ripples around their bodies.
A clustered body turns within blue water while a single pale ring gathers its repeated faces into a shared field of attention.




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]]><![CDATA[The Wall Looks Back]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/the-wall-looks-backhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/the-wall-looks-backSun, 17 May 2026 12:47:48 GMTScale shifts here. Small figures meet eyes, wings, walls, halos, and animal presences that make the world feel alert. This is the gallery where witness becomes encounter.

Between Two Walls

Surreal artwork of a small pale figure standing between tall dark walls with a bright vertical opening and warm orange lights.
She faces the narrow opening as though it has a voice.

Beast at the Hedge

Surreal image of a small white figure facing a large blue creature-like shape with an orange eye.
A small white body meets a larger watching shape.

Cat of the Threshold

The cat arrives as eye, flame, and scale.

City Ember Child

Surreal city scene of a small figure in white walking with a black cat through amber street light between tall dark structures.
A quiet traveler moves through the lit city edge.

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]]><![CDATA[Chorus in Repose]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/chorus-in-reposehttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/chorus-in-reposeSat, 09 May 2026 09:08:44 GMT
A central bearded figure in a bright pink robe stands in swirling blue water with open hands, surrounded by repeated versions of the figure and pale cloud-like forms around their heads.
A repeated figure gathers in blue water, its open hands and surrounding presences turning multiplicity into a quieter field of relation.




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]]><![CDATA[Crying in Ordinary Light]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-crying-in-ordinary-lighthttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-crying-in-ordinary-lightFri, 08 May 2026 21:50:49 GMTCrying in Ordinary Light is shaped by the feeling of witnessing someone else’s inner world from just outside the moment. The viewer becomes a quiet observer: near the mirror, outside the shower, acro…

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]]><![CDATA[Where the World Leaks]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-the-crying-world-where-the-world-leakshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-the-crying-world-where-the-world-leaksFri, 08 May 2026 18:16:22 GMTA person cries at a sink. Another in a car. Someone at a party, trying not to become the center of the room. A family breaks around a table. Rain gathers in the eyes of animals, in the bark of trees,…

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]]><![CDATA[Doorways and Seams]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/doorways-and-seamshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/doorways-and-seamsSun, 03 May 2026 08:02:36 GMTThis set turns toward openings—tents, slits of light, arches, thresholds, alcoves. The images feel like invitations into places that are watching as much as they are being entered.

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]]><![CDATA[Letters]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-lettershttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-lettersFri, 01 May 2026 11:55:15 GMT

Letters is a quiet quartet of sunlit still lifes, each centered on the same intimate arrangement: a single tulip in a glass vase beside an open notebook and pen.

Moving from yellow to white, red, and violet, the images feel like four moods of correspondence—bright, tender, ardent, and reflective—where the act of writing becomes both a gesture of attention and a small offering.



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Kirenya is a creative studio weaving fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works that move between dream, structure, and signal. Through multiple pen names, we explore layered meaning across stories, essays, and experimental dispatches. Stay if it resonates.

]]><![CDATA[To Be Seen As One]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-to-be-seen-as-onehttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-to-be-seen-as-oneThu, 30 Apr 2026 15:49:06 GMTIn To Be Seen As One, Mabst and Makari explore the outer ceremony of personality and the inward reckoning of becoming known.
Crowns, mirrors, altars, titles, shadows, and offerings trace the rituals …

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]]><![CDATA[The Work Has Its Own Weather ]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-the-work-has-its-own-weatherhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-the-work-has-its-own-weatherTue, 28 Apr 2026 16:53:46 GMT


The Work Has Its Own Weather is a visual essay on the atmospheres that gather around making.

Across nine images, the weather of the work appears as light on the face, rain at a threshold, a controlled institutional climate, a wall of signals, a cosmic map, and a house of separate rooms.

The series treats creative practice as a field of pressure and recognition: sometimes intimate, sometimes dreamlike, sometimes bureaucratic, sometimes vast enough to feel like a world forming around the page.





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]]><![CDATA[Department of Managed Expression]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-department-of-managed-expressionhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-department-of-managed-expressionTue, 28 Apr 2026 14:44:07 GMT



Department of Managed Expression is a satirical visual essay about the institutional refinement of the self.

Across nine images, thought, grief, authenticity, originality, and expression pass through polished counters, kiosks, chapels, submission slots, and velvet-roped checkpoints.

The world of the series is courteous, sterile, and perfectly lit. Everything requests compliance in the language of hospitality.





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Filed under: Mabst Shorts

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]]><![CDATA[same words, different weather]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-white-field-studies-same-words-different-weatherhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-white-field-studies-same-words-different-weatherMon, 27 Apr 2026 15:41:58 GMT


the field softens first





the end that opens





This series began in a dream that felt like a working session. There were glossy white fields: single words, objects, and sometimes combinations, each presented like a message waiting to be read.

After waking, what stayed with me was a visual grammar: white surface, sharp contrast, isolated yet related presence, and the feeling that arrangement could change the room.

This first study uses six lowercase words — ease, peace, cease, release, receive, increase — as cards in a shifting sequence. The words remain the same, but their order changes the weather.



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Kirenya is a creative studio weaving fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works across multiple pen names, exploring layered meaning through stories, essays, and experimental forms.

]]><![CDATA[The Chapel of Loving Hatred]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-the-chapel-of-loving-hatredhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-the-chapel-of-loving-hatredFri, 24 Apr 2026 00:12:18 GMTThis gallery extends Studies in Loving Hatred as a still study in devotional form.
Heart, bloom, perfume, mirror, gate, and seal become ceremonial objects for tenderness, appetite, atmosphere, reflection, boundary, and reward.
Flowers, gold, porcelain, and polished light compose its beautiful surface, while each image holds a sharper interior close enough to be felt.

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]]><![CDATA[Velvet Stage, Ritual Body]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/velvet-stage-ritual-bodyhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/velvet-stage-ritual-bodySun, 19 Apr 2026 14:27:13 GMTThis grouping moves from arrival into embodiment. Bodies take on the grammar of performance here—posed, lit, ceremonial, half-stage and half-spell.

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]]><![CDATA[Shadow Roses]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-shadow-roseshttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/gallery-shadow-rosesThu, 16 Apr 2026 15:36:49 GMTThe rose, in its own shadow. A familiar form returned through ink, silhouette, surface, and light, asking what remains when color withdraws.

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]]><![CDATA[Veil, Cocoon, Apparition]]>https://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/veil-cocoon-apparitionhttps://www.yes.kirenya.com/p/veil-cocoon-apparitionWed, 15 Apr 2026 14:10:41 GMTI wanted this one to blur the boundary between person, garment, symbol, and ghost. These images lean into drapery, suspension, fashion, apparition, and the slow transformation of form.

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