ROUTINE

Everyday objects recur in patterns of use and repetition. In Routine, familiar items—tools for domestic chores, mechanical small machines, folded fabrics—are isolated, enlarged, centred. They become visual echoes of the mundane act, the system of habit, the unnoticed mechanism of everyday life.

Photographed, staged and then translated into photorealistic charcoal drawings, the series takes what is habitual and renders it uncanny, slowing it down so that repetition can be seen rather than simply experienced.

The black backgrounds and precise, centred compositions strip away context—what remains is form, shadow, texture, rhythm. The objects stand still, but the stillness is charged: routine is steady but unrelenting, safe yet silent in its pressure.

In this space of quiet observing, the series asks: What does repetition do to perception? How does the habitual become invisible, and what happens when it is made visible again?

The process mirrors the theme: the act of repetition in drawing echoes the ritual of everyday use; the labour of charcoal captures the invisible stream of habit. What appears stable and familiar begins to tremble under examination—becoming a reflection of how lives are structured by the repetitive, the mechanical, the unnoticed.