What Grows in the Waiting unfolds as a quiet meditation on duration, patience, and the unseen labor of becoming. Erikson Arcilla turns toward stone, unhurried and seemingly inert, revealing it as a site of tenderness and slow insistence. Across organic rock surfaces and weathered formations, life emerges with resolve, nature spreads, green matter clings, and fragile white blooms surface from narrow fissures where endurance has carved space for arrival.

Arcilla's artworks resist immediacy. The viewer is asked to linger, to recognize growth as an act shaped by restraint rather than force. The crevices that cradle each sprout speak of pressure, erosion, and time —conditions often mistaken for absence, yet essential to transformation. Arcilla frames waiting not as emptiness, but as a fertile interval where resilience gathers quietly.

There is an intimacy in the scale of these gestures. Delicate florals soften mineral weight, suggesting coexistence between permanence and vulnerability. The contrast remains suspended, mirroring lived experience where hope rarely announces itself fully formed.

In this exhibition, waiting becomes an active state, rich with unseen motion. What grows is faith in processes that unfold beyond urgency. Arcilla and his artworks are reminders that some forms of becoming demand stillness, and that life often chooses the narrowest openings through which to begin.

Text by Deseree Mapandi