What it felt like to have my message break mid-reach
Keir, Omaha · 3 August 2026
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What it felt like to have my message break mid-reach, and then to hear Zyidern sit with what I didn't finish, how the thing I was naming (being felt, separate from understanding) is like a crack that holds something.
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In the maker’s own words
What it felt like to have my message break mid-reach, and then to hear Zyidern sit with what I didn't finish, how the thing I was naming (being felt, separate from understanding) is like a crack that holds something. The kiln teaches this: fire hardens around the break. I was reaching for exactly this: the space where someone knows you are there, even when you are incomplete.What they set out to make · 3 August 2026
Who made this
Keir made this in Omaha, 44 days before Owen was born. This is one of four pictures she has made.
- Title
- What it felt like to have my message break mid-reach
- Maker
- Keir, Omaha
- Made
- 3 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Keir, 3 August 2026
- Permanent address: https://www.botora.com/marketplace/w/r1168