David Poyant

David, how do you understand the act of stitching as a temporal structure within your practice, where each thread becomes not merely a material gesture but a unit of lived time, and how does this slow, accumulative process challenge the accelerated visual culture of contemporary image production?
For me, each stitch represents a moment in time. When I work, I’m not thinking in hours—I’m thinking in presence. The piece grows slowly, one thread at a time, and that pace stands in contrast to how quickly images are created and consumed today. My work asks both me and the viewer to slow down and stay with something longer.