Stillness

Suspension

EXTREME RARE MID · Still

Frozen time. The held moment, extended past the duration it would naturally have. Stillness is suspension: the energy is present and stopped.

The word

Old English stille, motionless, usually traced to a Germanic root meaning to stand fixed. The word has always covered both silence and motionlessness, one term for the stopped ear and the stopped eye. Still, as in even now, is the same word: what does not move, persists.

The feeling

Arrest, not rest. The energy of the moment is present and suspended, a held breath with no exhale yet. Attention sharpens to a point; small sounds become loud, small motions become events. Time does not flow so much as stand and be looked at. The body waits without knowing what for.

Against its neighbours

Calm is the absence of activation; stillness is activation stopped mid-arc, charge with the motion subtracted. Peace is a resolution and asks nothing further. Stillness is unresolved by design; the held moment holds because something in it has not finished happening.

In the work

Motion arrested mid-event. Everything in the frame is in a position it could not maintain.

6 works composed with Stillness

Ed · 85
$350
- Sg2
- Vd
- St
- Tm
- Mn
SERIES 001 · 2026
SURRENDER - The Interval of Becoming

Stillness holds the room: time forgets to count, and the becoming happens entirely inside the pause.
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Sold · 1
$398
- Sl2
- St
- Eq
- Aq
- Pt
EPOCH · 2023
Deluge

Stillness holds the float in place; nothing advances, the figure hangs between depths and stars in suspended time.
Sold · 1
SOLD
- Sl2
- St
- Wn
- Dv
TETRA · 2021
Intergalactic Glucose

Stillness holds the scene in suspension, silence reverberating around the strummed notes with nothing to hurry them.
Sold · 1
SOLD
- Dr2
- Nt
- St
- Ap
BLOOD · 2023
Keepers of the Dark Forest

Stillness is the standstill itself, the frozen interval where arrival has happened and nothing has yet moved.
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$75
- Eq2
- St
- Pc
- Cg
OPEN EDITION · 2026
Answers Found In Silence

Stillness is what the fire becomes here. Some come to make you still.
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∞
$75
- St2
- Eq
- Rn
- Su
OPEN EDITION · 2026
Crowned In Ashes

Stillness leads, because the statement says the fire is the thing people will get wrong: they will remember the blaze, but not the stillness in his face.
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