Still Life

2020

Still life is a reflection on the experience of time, free and idle time in particular, and how it is affected by the circumstances and the context governing one’s life, on a personal or collective level. It questions the fragility of the threshold that propels tranquility and ease into static immobility and morbidity.

Created during the pandemic in a time when movement was restricted and life was put on pause, this series acted both as a reflection on idleness and as a way of countering this passive period by actively heading out, though alone, to face the empty landscape and the stillness of time.

And in a blink of an eye, human activity was put on hold.

We evacuated the outside world from our physical presence.

We were left to ourselves, shrouded in stillness and idleness.

Questions about our fleeting existence started to arise.

They became inescapable.

Absence and time.

Stillness.

A notion suspended between tranquility and morbidity.

A pendulum now just hanging in the middle, itself also idle.

Hold, evacuate, shroud, contemplate, die

And then wait.