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Portal 8 - The Weight of Balance
A quiet place, but not a place of rest.
Balance is not a pause—it's a choice.

Digital drawing with Procreate on the iPad.
Total strokes: 209863
tracked time: 84h 41m
dimensions: 61 x 35 cm at 450 DPI

Portal 9 - Showing Respect to Time on Its Side
Digital drawing with Procreate on the iPad.
Total drawing time: 103 hours
Strokes: 215065
Max. print size: 80 x 50 cm

Thinking a lot of our perception of time while drawing this. Time here does not flow as it should; it lies on its side, suspended, defiant, vulnerable. With hat in hand, the Traveller acknowledges what cannot be controlled — the stillness between past and future.
Our very conception of time is ancient: the Egyptians already divided the day into 24 hours, while the Babylonians gave us 60 minutes and 60 seconds. To stand before time, then, is to face thousands of years of human measure — and something far older, that no measure can contain.

Portal 11: Sunset Negotiations

Digital drawing, 2025
⏱ 110 hours · ✍️ 372,922 strokes

🧳 “The traveler meets an emissary in an unfamiliar tide.”

Unlike some of the other drawings in this series, the portal here is deliberately minimal—just a structure that resembles a lift door. I kept it simple so it wouldn’t distract from the strange interaction unfolding at the shoreline.
This scene is more about the meeting than the passage.

Dirk wrote: "

Portal 11: Sunset Negotiations

Digital drawing, 2025
⏱ 110 hours · ✍️ 372,922 strokes

🧳 “The traveler meets an emissary in an unfamiliar tide.”

Unlike some of the other drawings in this series..."

negotiations are always possible.