No Emergency
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Description
No Emergency reflects on emotional numbness in an age of constant information overload. A girl lies quietly on a bed made of old newspapers—headlines scream of war, moon landings, protests, celebrity deaths. Around her are familiar digital devices: a laptop, a camera, headphones, a game controller. Every screen displays the same message: “No emergency.”
There’s a tension between the chaos of the world and her complete stillness. She doesn’t react—not because she doesn’t care, but perhaps because she’s exhausted by caring. The work speaks to a shared state of quiet detachment, where endless updates blur into background noise, and urgency loses its meaning.
She stares directly at the viewer—not with anger or sorrow, but with a calm, blank expression. As if to ask: “So what?”
No Emergency doesn’t try to explain. It just holds up a mirror to a feeling many know too well—when everything is too loud, we shut down.
Year: 2025
Medium: oil painting