Planetless: The Quiet Weight of Disconnection

 There are moments when a painting emerges not from a clear narrative, but from a quiet emotional weight you can’t yet name. Planetless was born from that kind of silence, a desire to paint the stillness that comes when disconnection stops being temporary and becomes a way of existing.

With Planetless, I wanted to explore the unsettling stillness that arises when disconnection becomes a state of being, not just a moment of solitude, but an almost existential sense of not belonging. The figure, isolated and adrift, wears a sealed suit; its mouth is covered, its voice muted. In this world, language is useless. There is no longer a need for explanation, only a quiet resignation.

Planetless
Planetless

The imagery reflects a kind of modern detachment, where technology, society, or even our own personal experience can create distances so vast that we drift through our lives like visitors, disconnected not only from others, but from ourselves. The sealed mouth suggests that even the act of speaking has become unnecessary, or perhaps impossible. What remains is silence, and within it, the weight of understanding without words.

Planetless belongs to my Pocket Art series: small-format original oil paintings created with the same care and emotional depth as my larger works. In these more intimate scales, I seek to capture distilled moments of reflection, where narrative and symbolism compress into a single, concentrated image.

As with much of my work, this painting does not attempt to resolve the unease it evokes. Instead, it holds space, a quiet threshold where the viewer may recognize the beauty within discomfort, and perhaps, find a strange kind of peace inside that silence.

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