The figure exists in suspension, her expression balanced between physical reflex and internal realization. Color amplifies the tension, primary tones heightening immediacy and focus. There is nothing complicated here. Just the body doing what bodies do, at the precise moment before it does it.
In HOLD THAT THOUGHT (GIRL with ALLERGIES), Gregory Evans isolates the instant just before release – before outburst, before the inevitable.
This work belongs to Threshold Myth, at the abyss, ready for a little-death, a moment unconscious, an instant before change where potential gathers and is quickly resolved. Every great thing lives in this moment. Every irreversible thing too.
To be relaxed in the midst of urgency, to maintain poise at the edge of the abyss – that’s where the great work gets done.
HOLD THAT THOUGHT (GIRL with ALLERGIES) was originally a drawing on printer paper with ink and markers.