Pressed Silence

This series speaks through gesture when the face has vanished. Hands remain—grasping, shielding, cradling the weight of what cannot be voiced. Through layers of gauze white, deep black-green, ochre gold, and blood red, the figures embody a visual language of survival. They do not cry out; they hold their stillness, a stillness charged with memory, fear, and resilience.

The works evoke a world where visibility carries risk, where silence is necessity, and where the body itself becomes an archive of trauma. Expression is not erased but transformed, carried in the tension of muscle and the trace of movement. The figures are aged, their forms worn by time, bearing the weight of journeys that have stretched long and harsh. They appear at the threshold of endurance, holding what remains after so much has been endured.

At its core, Pressed Silence reveals the hand as witness. It remembers what the mouth cannot say, shields what the eyes cannot meet, and connects body to history through touch, scar, and prayer. This is not silence as absence, but silence under pressure—trembling yet unbroken, shaped by years of survival and carried to the final edges of a long journey.