Dzelde Mierkalne (1997), based in Riga, Latvia, is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. With great reverence for technique and process, Dzelde aims to overthrow technique-related artistic standards to create something new and find its place in today’s context. While reflecting on the existential fears of “world destruction”, mortality salience, and death anxiety through the lens of today’s post-irony and humour, she likes to play around with the syntheses of drawing and form.