Between States

A study in transition, using charcoal to explore the space between emergence and erasure.

Year

2025

Scope

Graphic Design

Client

Personal Exploration

Duration

2 weeks

These works move through a space of vulnerability—where form loosens its hold on the physical and begins to shift into something less fixed, less certain. Figures emerge and recede through charcoal and gesture, shaped as much by what is removed as what remains. Edges soften, structures falter, and the body becomes a suggestion rather than a boundary.

Within this instability, a quieter rhythm takes hold—one that echoes natural cycles of growth, erosion, and renewal. Marks gather and disperse like breath, like weather, like something felt more than defined. The drawings do not settle; they hover in states of becoming, where strength is not asserted but revealed through openness and change.

In this space, vulnerability and empowerment are not opposites, but intertwined conditions. What yields also persists. What dissolves also reshapes. Form extends beyond the physical, held in a continuous motion between presence and absence, tension and release.