Held by Skottie O'Mahony

This series examines identity as something carried rather than performed. Through a sequence of portraits, time functions not as erosion, but as a formative force—shaping dignity, authority, vulnerability, and reverence.

Moving from authority to lineage, suspension to confrontation, and finally integration, the works trace a restrained emotional arc. Youth and age, sanctification and cost, stillness and resolve coexist without hierarchy. What emerges is not spectacle, but presence—figures shaped by time, held by it, and ultimately illuminated through it.

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