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Still Dayligh's workst invite a change of perspective brought outside of ourselves. Nature is everywhere. It appears, fades, then reappears - lush, caged, ancient, cultivated, out of reach, hardly contained. With a particular approach to beauty, these works explore nature as an invigorating refuge, a space for contemplation and questioning, inseparable from its blind potential for cruelty and destruction. This tension-laden paradox of optimism suggests an anthropocentric perspective, and yet a human presence is never more than implicit. Rather, we are asked to recognize the complete ambivalence of nature to our existence. This collective posthumanism is not intended to promote despair or indulgence in the doomsday fantasy. Far from there. Rather, it is a form of acceptance, reminding us that humanity is a concept defined by limits, just as progress is wrongly defined by expansion. The works collected inStill Daylight offers a cautionary line, asking us to calm down just long enough to make way for a present amplified by stillness.