Sanuj Shaw

The Silent Prayer

11x16 white pen & pencil 

Using white on a black surface (negative drawing) is a powerful choice for this subject. It suggests that peace is something we "carve out" from the darkness rather than something that is always visible.

 The Roots of Time

11x16  charcoal & pen

The Clock Element: By placing the clock face where the eye should be, the artist suggests a "way of seeing." The figure no longer looks at the world; they see only the passage of time. The fact that the clock is cracked or merging into the skin implies that time has become an inseparable part of their physical being.

The Harvest of Hours

11x16  charcoal & pen

There was a man who traded his sight for the ability to see the "true time"—not the hours on a wall, but the exact moment every living thing would return to the earth. As he grew older, his skin turned to bark and his thoughts became tangled branches. The clock didn't just tell time; it consumed his face, ticking in rhythm with a heart that had long ago tur

The Hourglass Soul

11x16 charcoal & pen

The Eternal Watchman

Deep within the Whispering Woods stands a tree unlike any other. Centuries ago, a man who feared the end of time made a pact with the earth to remain forever. Now, his face is the bark, and his thoughts are the branches. He no longer hears the birds or the wind; he only hears the steady, rhythmic click-clack of the clock embedded in his sku