Dzelde Mierkalne (1997) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. Based in Riga, Latvia, she has finished studies in the MA program POST at the Art Academy of Latvia. 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.