Massachusetts-based artist Josephine Halvorson makes paintings from observation of objects and surfaces that she encounters by chance or on the periphery of her daily life. Halvorson sets up her easel and materials within close proximity, and renders physical form as it changes in daylight, season, and meaning. The two paintings in the exhibition – one made on Cape Cod, the other near her home in the Berkshires – represent signs, a recurrent motif within her wider interest in still life, and memento mori. The most recent, Slow Sign (2025), nearly forces the viewer to stop in their tracks. A familiar “Slow Children” street sign leans askew in a patch of the woods, seemingly knocked over by people or cars that were perhaps not slow at all. Halvorson captures moments like these as portraits of time, where the presence of others is palpable but not visible. In these two works, the artist contends with warnings in plain sight, where signs direct us to places and issues beyond themselves.