The figure’s gaze past the child toward that glowing screen creates a specific emotional grammar — present physically but elsewhere attentionally, which reads differently than if he were looking down at what he holds.

The gaze up and away while holding someone creates a strange suspension — like he’s looking past the weight he’s actually supporting, which seems to be exactly the point of this piece.

The way the monitor glows blank while the figure looks away from it — you’ve made the technology present but inert, which actually sharpens how much attention is on the body-to-body contact instead.

Are you thinking about care or dependency as something that exists outside the frame of