There’s something quietly radical about art that refuses to look away.
This project lives in the space between. Where honest observation meets the human need to find lightness in heavy things. Not to resolve the tension. Just to look at it directly and make something true from it.
THE PROCESS
ONOFF begins with photographs. Some I took. Some I sourced. Many were made while moving through the world with my eyes open to what most people walk past.
Each image gets reduced to its essential lines, the noise removed until only the truth of it remains. From there, every piece is executed by hand. The black ground is sumi ink on cold-press Arches paper. The white line is watercolor, traced from a projected digital reference.
The reference doesn’t change. The hand does.
No two pieces are identical. Pressure shifts. The line breathes differently each time. What looks controlled is quietly, stubbornly human, and that tension is the whole point. These works live in the space between the mechanical and the imperfect.
Between on and off.
These are original works on paper. Not prints. Not reproductions. Each one signed, each one unrepeatable. Each composition is offered in two sizes and retired once five originals exist in each size.
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