We exist in a time of experiential poverty: a culture of ceaseless media in which every pause is treated as a luxury given that every idle moment is an opportunity for another image, another notification, another claim on our attention. Algorithmically curated, optimized, accelerated, and monetized, these systems mine attention as a resource until even presence feels hard won.

This assemblage is a gathering of interruptions in that process - a gentle, if forced, return to presence: a screen that breathes and pulses instead of scrolling; a browser that slips the leash into abstraction; a video compressed until its infrastructure becomes visible; a feature-length film collapsed into an endlessly looping GIF; smoke holding light long enough to almost feel solid; soot carried chaotically by melting snow across washi paper; static lingering after the message has disappeared.

Together, these works attend to the material realities hidden beneath contemporary experience: the infrastructures that shape attention, the environmental and computational costs of seemingly immaterial media, the fragility of memory, and the quiet resistance found in slowness, failure, and interruption.

Nothing here resolves, and nothing asks to be understood. Only to be stayed with long enough for the impulse to pinch, scroll, swipe, tab over, or otherwise move on begins to soften.