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These short-form contributions serve as an introduction to standstill and its many forms. Click through anecdotes, mini-essays, and humorous visualizations of stillness in this selection designed for novices.
View of the hand of an unknown holy Sadhu sitting at the Ganges river
Photo: Jose Hernandez

Withdrawal
 In a Deep Trance

Erdmuthe Hacken

Deep Dream Image (Detail) of Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (Cropped)
© Image by Kyle McDonald via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/people/kylemcdonald/

No One Is an Island
 Sideræl

Sascha Ehlert

The low season: empty coast in Goa
© Erdmuthe Hacken

The Off-Season
 A Deep Breath in the Interlude

Erdmuthe Hacken and Michael Krell

Graphic of a cosmic hand pointing down to planet earth
Image editing: Goethe-Institut Los Angeles

Whiplash
 The Day the Earth Stood Still

Stefan Kloo

Zwei Schafe blicken aufs Remstal
Photo: Verena Hütter

A Rems Valley Pastoral
 Standstill With Sheep

Verena Hütter

Still Frame from the Grouper Video “I’m clean now”: Liz Harris in the rain in front of a red smoke screen
Photo: © Grouper / Licensed to YouTube by The Orchard Music

Freezing Time
 Moving Without Moving

Leonhard Hieronymi

Collage of the top results of a Google search for the terms “moon,” “dam,” and “Marilyn Monroe”
Collage: Verena Hütter

Photography
 Standstill in History

Andreas Ströhl

Dumped junk by the roadside near Guadalajara, Mexico
Photo: Nico Klomann

Redemption From the Hamster Wheel
 On the Abyss

Nico Klomann

The two continents, Laurussia and Gondwana, reaching for each other (illustration)
Illustration: Dominik Wendland

Mimicking Stillness
Part 1: Very Slow

Savannah Beck

A very fast photon speeding through space (illustration)
Illustration: Dominik Wendland

Mimicking Stillness
 Part 2: Very Fast

Savannah Beck

Squirrel
Photo (detail): Allan Hack © Wikimedia Commons

There Is no Alternative
 Standstill Is Regression and Progress

Dirk Braunstein

Lederhose, a view of the village
Photo: © CC-BY 4.0

The End of the Traffic Report
 Standstill in Lederhosen

Verena Hütter

ISS Astronaut Christina Koch installing a new piece of hardware for the Cold Atom Lab, an experimental physics facility that chills atoms to almost absolute zero (0 degrees kelvin, - 459 degrees Fahrenheit)
Photo: © NASA/JPL-Caltech

Absolute Zero
 Avoid the False Morel

Enis Maci

A purple morning glory flower against a deep blue background
Photo: y Couleur © Pixabay

Loss of Long-Term Memory
 Seeds in Townes Van Zandt’s Hand

Pascal Richmann

Andy Warhol, “Screen Test: Bob Dylan [ST83],” 1966
Film still: Courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum

Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests”
 Moving Images that Practice Standing Still

Saskia Trebing

Album cover “100% Rasender Stillstand”
Illustration: Frau Paula — Rasender Stillstand (Band)

About Standstill
 Spotify Playlists

Javier Audirac and Jürgen Hueske

Word cloud
Illustration: Kitty Kahane

Visual Language
 Word Cloud

Kitty Kahane