What Remains

What Remains is the final work in the Excavation series — the point at which excavation gives way to stillness. After accumulation, disturbance, and erasure, the surface withdraws from image and language. Marks persist without instruction. Forms emerge, then refuse to resolve. What remains is not absence, but compression — a field shaped by everything that has passed through it. The painting carries evidence of pressure rather than gesture. Abrasion, fracture, and residue sit quietly across the surface, suggesting that meaning has already been worked through and set aside. Nothing here asks to be interpreted. Nothing announces itself as symbol. This is not an ending that resolves. It is an ending that holds.