Artist Statement:

A barbershop hums with quiet rituals: the buzz of clippers, the rhythm of scissors, the low, steady cadence of lives shared in fragments. These spaces, unassuming and timeless, hold a gravity all their own. The chair at the center of it all—a hollow seat—becomes a vessel for confession, reflection, and transformation.

In small towns and on forgotten streets, barbershops are sanctuaries. They cradle stories too heavy to hold alone, secrets spoken over the metallic drone of a razor. Barbers, like second therapists, listen without judgment, their hands shaping not just hair but moments of solace and connection. The air here is thick with trust and the weight of the unsaid.

Hollow Seat is an elegy to these spaces—rooms that smell of talc and aftershave, where sunlight falls in uneven patches on linoleum floors. It captures the residue of lives lived: the sweep of fallen hair, a cracked mirror, the hum of fluorescent lights. It’s a study in stillness and sound, in the intimacy that thrives where walls hold more than voices.

Through portraits that reveal more than faces, quiet still lifes, and the whispers of conversations half-remembered, Hollow Seat traces the contours of human connection. It is a map of spaces that heal in silence, where the chair is never empty for long.