Heavy Like Words

Portraits of invisible weight.

Heavy Like Words investigates the paradox of softness and gravity. Suspended stones wrapped in cloth become metaphors for the emotional and psychological forces that shape us—memory, grief, love, language, resilience. These unseen experiences have no physical form, yet they possess immense weight. The work asks how invisible burdens become visible through tension, balance, atmosphere, and air.

Oil, graphite on canvas, 5.5’x4’