A Gentle Sort of Restlessness is a hand-carved wood sculpture by James Gilbert. Constructed from carved wood with metal, stain, varnish, and wax, the sculpture preserves visible evidence of its making through carved surfaces, exposed joinery, and assembled forms. Neither artifact nor figure, it occupies an uncertain territory where material, process, and form invite sustained looking, reflecting the artist’s continuing interest in how constructed objects acquire presence without resolving into fixed meanings.