Hold on to the Silence  is a natural exhale from One Millionth in the Sense of Yesterday. Where that series captured the restless rhythm of city life—the ghostlike blur of people, the hollow echo of movement—this body of work turns inward, toward stillness, solitude, and the breath between noise.  Drawing questions on how we treat and view the natural spaces around us. These images are born from quieter walks, slower listening, and the spaces where time feels suspended.

 If the city in One Millionth in the Sense of Yesterday asks whether it is the people or the place that has lost its soul, Hold on to the Silence explores what happens when we stop searching outward for that answer. What remains when we pause long enough to hear our own presence? What hush hums beneath the volume of everything else?

Music threads its way through these works—not as a soundtrack, but as an atmosphere.  Songs guiding both mood and my editing process, with the lyrics often becoming the titles.  This is the sound of still water, of soft light between buildings, of the overlooked gestures that speak volumes: a curtain half drawn, a reflection unclaimed. 

Together, these two series form a kind of diptych—one looking out, one looking in. One caught in motion, one at rest. One asking, What are we missing and the other quietly answering, This.

Photographs from the One Millionth in the Sense of Yesterday have been accepted as part of the following shows:

Ontario Society of Artists, The Unquiet North, Annual Juried Show,  - 2025