(Fracture Does Not Erupt; It Forms within Stillness)

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Transforms painting into a material system governed primarily by time. Breath is no longer articulated through tension or event-based change, but through repeated processes of covering, compression, drying, and material fatigue, allowing former conflicts to gradually settle into stable structural states.

In this phase, color enters a condition of silence. The surfaces are composed of layered grays—not as an aesthetic act of desaturation, but as residues formed through the absorption and exhaustion of color over time. Fissures no longer function as points of eruption; instead, they serve as subtle passages through which sedimented systems continue to breathe. Rather than presenting momentary change, the works articulate a state of stillness in formation, shifting painting away from visual expression toward the bearing of time and material history.