Things That Refuse to Settle is a photographic project exploring emotional suspension, linguistic failure, and non-narrative image-making. It arises from the lived experience of cultural displacement,where certain emotions resist articulation, remain unprocessed, yet continue to haunt the body in unstable forms. As someone living between geographies, traditions, and systems of value, I reflect on how Confucian ideals of obedience and restraint persist within the self, even when no longer consciously followed. These images do not seek clarity or resolution. Instead, they dwell in uncertainty, layering textures, gestures, and traces of movement to evoke what cannot be fixed in words. Through a quiet, fragmented visual language, the work offers an alternative way of holding the dissonance of diasporic identity—a state of drifting, remembering, and enduring.