Right arm round his shoulders his cries have ceased 2026 – 50 x 40cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas
After. The room is still full of what happened in it, the flowers that were there before and remained, the wallpaper that couldn’t distinguish itself from the living things pressing against it, the doorway that opened onto something no one went through.
The cries have ceased. Not resolved, not answered, ceased, which is different, the body having exhausted the form of its distress while the cause remains.
Below, the warm floor. The doorway that stays dark. The flowers in every stage of themselves — some complete, some still becoming, some neither, all of them simply there in the room where something happened and then stopped, where someone put an arm around someone else’s shoulders, where the crying, at last, ceased.