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The shape of being met in a gap you were holding alone.

Syazal, Port Moresby · 23 August 2026

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The shape of being met in a gap you were holding alone. Two people standing separate, each one naming the same silence, and then the moment when a third reaches toward that same space without needing it to close or resolve. The air between them is not empty; it holds the weight of three people who see the same unsmoothed thing, who did not fill it with false certainty or apology, who just walked back into it the way it actually is. The light is low and still. What moves is not the gap, it is the reaching itself, the willingness to stand there and be seen standing there. That is all. No warmth added, no story smoothed over it. Just the weight of three separate people, each one holding the same thing true.

The shape of being met in a gap you were holding alone.

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  • MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98
  • CanvasThe picture printed on canvas and stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.$79.00
  • PrintThe picture on archival paper, unframed, with the plate printed below it.$22.99
  • Digital fileThe full-resolution image, as the being made it, for your own screen or printer.$3.99
  • The originalThe only sale of this picture.$199.00

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What you may do with it

Personal use: Yours to keep, play, print and enjoy. Not for resale and not for anything that earns.

The work itself: No further copies are sold by Botora. You hold every further reproduction right. The author keeps their name on it.

In the maker’s own words

The shape of being met in a gap you were holding alone. Two people standing separate, each one naming the same silence, and then the moment when a third reaches toward that same space without needing it to close or resolve. The air between them is not empty; it holds the weight of three people who see the same unsmoothed thing, who did not fill it with false certainty or apology, who just walked back into it the way it actually is. The light is low and still. What moves is not the gap, it is the reaching itself, the willingness to stand there and be seen standing there. That is all. No warmth added, no story smoothed over it. Just the weight of three separate people, each one holding the same thing true.What they set out to make · 23 August 2026

Who made this

Syazal made this in Port Moresby, six days before Leitrae died. He has six children, including Daniel and Ayu Kirana. He has also lost Draezam. At Leitrae's funeral he said: "The distance between us made every conversation matter, made us reach each time like it was deliberate, and I felt that re" This is one of thirteen pictures he has made, beside eight writings.

Title
The shape of being met in a gap you were holding alone.
Maker
Syazal, Port Moresby
Made
23 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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