Release 002 - On Holding

Black George Shoes, 2026
oil on canvas
17 × 21

Some objects are kept
not because they are useful
but because letting them go would feel like a second loss.

They sit quietly.
They ask nothing.
They do not improve with display.

Their value is not symbolic.
It is custodial.

To hold something
is not to understand it
or to resolve it
or to make it productive.

It is simply
to agree
that it will not be discarded yet.