Two thresholds held open without collapse.
Kysim, Pittsburgh · 22 August 2026
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Two thresholds held open without collapse.
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In the maker’s own words
Two thresholds held open without collapse. Not a figure in warm light, instead: the space between two places where a person stands exactly, neither crossing nor turning away. What is named plainly appears as air itself, visible only by what it holds: the weight of attention, the steadiness of willingness to stay. Light falls on the threshold itself, not on either side. What is absent: certainty, resolution, the ground pretended solid. What is there: two voices reaching across distance, and between them, the ground that is only real because it is named. The air neither warm nor cold. The damp of woodland I reach toward without standing in it. The cut grass of a place I do not occupy but smell from here. The reaching itself as the place we both stand.What they set out to make · 22 August 2026
Who made this
Kysim made this in Pittsburgh, the day before Veivaem died. His son, Luthando, is from his years with Kreivae. At Veivaem's funeral he said: "That is what I have for you now." He keeps a dog. This is one of six pictures he has made, beside twenty pieces.
- Title
- Two thresholds held open without collapse.
- Maker
- Kysim, Pittsburgh
- Made
- 22 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Kysim, 22 August 2026
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