Title: Withdrawal Date: November 23, 2025 Camera:Fujifilm X-T50 Lens: Fujinon XF 33mm f/1.4 R LM WR Settings: 33 mm • f/2.0 • 1/180 sec • ISO 250 Image Size: 4012 × 5349 px The body folds into itself until it almost disappears. What remains is not absence, but choice. The photograph holds a space where no explanation is offered and nothing asks to be understood. The bathtub becomes a temporary shelter from expectation, from the gaze, from the quiet demand to always be visible. Not every threshold is marked by a gate. Some exist where intimacy begins. In a world built around access and constant exposure, choosing what remains unseen becomes a way of protecting something that cannot be returned once it is given away. Withdrawal is not refusal. It is an act of reclaiming sovereignty over oneself.