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Yield
2022 
Graphite on paper.
650 x 750 mm

A monstera plant stretches its leaves toward a window covered by closed blinds. Its organic forms push through the rigid, linear structure as if reaching for light or freedom. In this graphite drawing, two worlds meet: the wild, unpredictable force of nature and the human desire for control, order, and containment.

The work serves as a visual and thematic exploration of our relationship with what we call nature, how we tame, enclose, and reshape it to our needs. But it also delves into human nature itself, where confinement is constantly confronted by the impulse to grow freely.

The artist chose to leave the drawing unfinished. This incompleteness becomes an act in itself: a conscious departure from control, a way to allow the unpredictable to inhabit the process. The empty spaces carry as much meaning as the rendered ones, like silences in a conversation.

Yield is not merely an image of a plant in motion. It is quiet resistance, an open state, and a poetic question: What happens when we let go?

© Rebecca Sharp. All Rights Reserved.

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