"The Skipping Girls" intensifies the inquiry of Tobias Keene's "Black Paintings" through repetition. Multiple figures reiterate the same suspended gesture, collapsing movement into stillness. Sequence is replaced by concentration. Multiplicity here does not suggest narrative or duration. Instead, each reiterated figure reinforces the same unresolved state. Black absorbs time entirely, holding the group within a single, sustained condition of suspension.

Oil on Wood Panels

72h x 111.37w

182.88w x 282..88h