Movement in Stillness developed from 'Rooted. Alive.' , a project that began as an investigation into vitality.

In Japan I worked intensively with monotype printing, repeatedly pressing paint onto surfaces and observing how forms emerged, shifted, and dissolved. Through that process I understood something fundamental. Life is not fixed structure. Life is continuous transformation.

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That understanding demanded a material shift. The energy of the monotypes needed resistance. For this series I began working on raw canvas. The unprimed surface absorbs, drags, and slows the paint. It does not allow effortless glide. It resists the gesture.

This resistance is essential. Movement in Stillness is not about fluid motion. It is about force meeting friction. Paint is pushed, interrupted, partially absorbed, and redirected. The surface stains, holds, and fights back. Each mark is negotiated rather than simply placed.

The paintings are physically dynamic. Forms surge, collide, and disperse. Green and blue masses compress against each other. Lighter grounds act not as calm but as tension fields where pressure becomes visible. Energy accumulates and is barely contained.

Yet the work does not collapse into chaos. Every eruption encounters structure. Each gesture recalibrates the previous one. The image exists in a state of unstable equilibrium.

 

Stillness here does not mean quiet. It is the momentary suspension of movement within ongoing transformation.

The canvas captures force in action, not after it has resolved.

Movement in Stillness operates through resistance, mutation, and adjustment.

It does not depict vitality. It enacts it.