“Carry On” examines the weaponization of endurance as social control. The solitary figure trudges through a hostile landscape. This is not resilience as empowerment, but resilience as sentence.

The phrase “keep calm and carry on” has become a cultural mantra that asks us to endure racism, deportations, transphobia, and systemic violence while maintaining composure. The figure in this print embodies that impossible mandate – trapped in perpetual motion through increasingly dangerous terrain, with no destination offered, only the obligation to continue.

This work questions when endurance stops being strength and becomes simply the absence of alternatives. When there is nothing to move toward and no option but to move, “carrying on” reveals itself not as hope, but as the only response left to us.

12 x 12. Edition of 25