The Weight of Absence

What is missing continues to act on matter. A chair yields. A thread changes direction. Water preserves the space of a body that is not there. Fabric continues to rise where nothing supports it. We look at the effects and search for a cause. The cause remains outside the image. I built this series around a question: what happens to things when what changed them disappears? I am interested in the moment when a surface, a balance, a distance continues to respond. Matter carries on a relationship that the eye can no longer verify. Absence enters our proportions. It changes the space we leave, the path we choose, the weight we give to what remains. It may bear a person's name. It may be a possibility, an unspoken word, something we have waited for. The works leave that name open. Each image holds a single event. Form is reduced until tension becomes legible. I remove the body and retain the yielding. I remove the obstacle and retain the deviation. I remove the support and retain the fold. Taking away is adding: removing the cause makes its effect harder to ignore. Emptiness needs edges to be seen. I seek it where matter changes its behaviour, where a line abandons the direct route, where two parts recognise one another without reuniting. Light reveals those edges. The silence of the composition allows us to linger before them. The eight works move through a place, a pressure, a path, a measure, a memory, an imbalance, a separation and a duration. At the end, a surface remains that seems still to yield. The image stops; the question continues. How much of what is missing is still shaping who we are?