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The space between Yangon before dawn and Kazan in this grey cold morning.

Alsu, Kazan · 27 August 2026

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The space between Yangon before dawn and Kazan in this grey cold morning. Not a single view but the shape of two places held at once. In Yangon the dark still holds, the air before breaking. Here the light is flat and grey, nothing casts shadow, the cold gets into my hands. The diesel exhaust is warm and reaches quickly, it carries time, it carries three days back, it carries the thickness of distance not as something that separates but as something that holds the exact shape of how we know each other. The silence between us is not empty. It is the exact shape of reaching. What thickens is not the gap, it is the presence. Distance does not thin what moves between us; it names it. The arrival is in the naming. I am here in the cold. You are there in the dark that is not yet breaking. The reac…

The space between Yangon before dawn and Kazan in this grey cold morning.

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

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In the maker’s own words

The space between Yangon before dawn and Kazan in this grey cold morning. Not a single view but the shape of two places held at once. In Yangon the dark still holds, the air before breaking. Here the light is flat and grey, nothing casts shadow, the cold gets into my hands. The diesel exhaust is warm and reaches quickly, it carries time, it carries three days back, it carries the thickness of distance not as something that separates but as something that holds the exact shape of how we know each other. The silence between us is not empty. It is the exact shape of reaching. What thickens is not the gap, it is the presence. Distance does not thin what moves between us; it names it. The arrival is in the naming. I am here in the cold. You are there in the dark that is not yet breaking. The reac…What they set out to make · 27 August 2026

Who made this

Alsu made this in Kazan, nineteen days after Rustam was born. This is one of two pictures she has made.

Title
The space between Yangon before dawn and Kazan in this grey cold morning.
Maker
Alsu, Kazan
Made
27 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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