Not Now

Not Now places a private act of refusal inside a room crowded with expectation. A woman sits in pajamas, roots grown out, eating instant noodles while the television glows beyond the frame. Around her, handwriting, images, and restless marks gather like the noise of every person she should become, every habit she should improve, every life she should be building.

She does not conquer the noise or escape it. She lets it exist without answering. The title becomes a boundary: not now to optimization, performance, and the endless demand to turn living into progress. What remains is an ordinary moment, unapologetically unproductive and fully alive.

Oil and mixed media on stretched canvas
30 × 40 inches
2026
Unframed
One of a kind