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You Look So Peaceful For Someone Who Never Knew Rest is a series of original figurative drawings mapping the conditions of a body that has never learned to be still. Each piece is a different state — folded, braced, suspended, gathered, held — but none are passive. Hands press down on skulls, grip knees, cradle faces. The posture of rest is assumed. Rest itself remains elsewhere.
The work begins with an inherited idea: that stillness must be earned, that the body has no right to softness it hasn't paid for. Passed down through generations, this belief lives in the body — in what it cannot release even in sleep. These drawings make that interior visible. Each one a study of what rest looks like in a body that has only ever known its outline.
Ink on fine art paper, 33.7 × 47.5 cm. Each piece is unique.
You Look So Peaceful For Someone Who Never Knew Rest is a series of original figurative drawings mapping the conditions of a body that has never learned to be still. Each piece is a different state — folded, braced, suspended, gathered, held — but none are passive. Hands press down on skulls, grip knees, cradle faces. The posture of rest is assumed. Rest itself remains elsewhere.
The work begins with an inherited idea: that stillness must be earned, that the body has no right to softness it hasn't paid for. Passed down through generations, this belief lives in the body — in what it cannot release even in sleep. These drawings make that interior visible. Each one a study of what rest looks like in a body that has only ever known its outline.
Ink on fine art paper, 33.7 × 47.5 cm. Each piece is unique.