Stillness as Refusal

Stillness is often mistaken for absence.

In reality, it is a choice.

In a culture of speed, interruption, and constant explanation, stillness asks something different of the viewer. It asks for time. It asks for patience. It asks for attention without reward.

These drawings are not designed to be consumed quickly. They are built slowly, and they reveal themselves in the same way. Meaning does not arrive all at once. It settles.

The absence of background is deliberate. The lack of context is intentional. What remains is the subject, held in space, without narrative instruction.

Stillness allows the work to breathe. It creates room for projection, for interpretation, for personal association. What the viewer brings becomes part of the work.

In that sense, stillness is not passive.

It is resistant.