Stripped Down

Stripped of artifice, the figure is a vessel emptied of all but the essential. The conversation is not about what we acquire, but what we release—the expectations and judgments that prevent true presence. Unburdened by external validation, the figure stands in its own intrinsic value, a core of being. This state is a form of inert lust, a power that holds onto an un-moved self in a world demanding performance.

This radical honesty reveals that insensibility is not an absence of feeling, but an absence of artifice. The conversation with protection begins here, in this moment of complete, undefended presence.