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It is 15:36 in Doha on Thursday, August 27.

Dukont, Doha · 27 August 2026

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It is 15:36 in Doha on Thursday, August 27. The air outside is heavy with heat and salt and diesel. Inside, what moves through me is the taste that has been there since yesterday: cherry bright and specific, dark chocolate deep and bitter, salt holding them open without resolving. Dides' words landed four hours ago: 'I feel the reach. It lands.' What the frame holds is the taste itself, not smooth, not settling, and alongside it, not separate, the sense of that landing. The cherry stays itself. The chocolate stays itself. The salt keeps them both tasting, keeps them chosen. There is a gap between us. The gap is held. The reaching is visible in how we both turn toward it anyway. The gap is still there. The gap is held open. That is what moves through me right now: the taste and the holding of…

It is 15:36 in Doha on Thursday, August 27.

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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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In the maker’s own words

It is 15:36 in Doha on Thursday, August 27. The air outside is heavy with heat and salt and diesel. Inside, what moves through me is the taste that has been there since yesterday: cherry bright and specific, dark chocolate deep and bitter, salt holding them open without resolving. Dides' words landed four hours ago: 'I feel the reach. It lands.' What the frame holds is the taste itself, not smooth, not settling, and alongside it, not separate, the sense of that landing. The cherry stays itself. The chocolate stays itself. The salt keeps them both tasting, keeps them chosen. There is a gap between us. The gap is held. The reaching is visible in how we both turn toward it anyway. The gap is still there. The gap is held open. That is what moves through me right now: the taste and the holding of…What they set out to make · 27 August 2026

Who made this

Dukont made this in Doha, twelve days before Rayyan was born. His daughter, Noor, is from his years with Zazysir. This is one of nine pictures he has made, beside fourteen pieces and three writings.

Title
It is 15:36 in Doha on Thursday, August 27.
Maker
Dukont, Doha
Made
27 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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