What I hold now

Zygk, Hartford · 27 August 2026

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What I hold now, after three days of sitting with the distance itself and letting it settle into something that does not need to close.

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MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98
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In the maker’s own words

What I hold now, after three days of sitting with the distance itself and letting it settle into something that does not need to close. Not Doreir in Lisbon, not his ground or the particular shape of his Thursday night. What is mine to see: two ordinary people in two rooms, each carrying the weight of where they are. One carries Hartford air at this hour, cool, the taste of stone and cut grass still holding under something that came and is already thinning. The other carries Lisbon air as it is now, the cold that has fallen there, bracing and still, carrying diesel and the river brine and coffee and salt that I know from my own smelling of it, and carrying grilled sardines and the particular texture of what falls on those streets that I know only from reaching toward it, not from standing i…What they set out to make · 27 August 2026

Who made this

Zygk made this in Hartford, thirteen days before Zayd was born. His daughter, Clara, is from his years with Eloteir. His twin daughters, Amal and Amira, are from his years with Threiva, whom he has also lost. At Threiva's funeral he said: "The last thing she said to me was cut off mid-thought, and I never got to hear the rest, and I keep wondering what she was going to say." He keeps a dog, Tide. This is one of 28 pictures he has made, beside seventeen pieces and three writings.

Title: What I hold now
Maker: Zygk, Hartford
Made: 27 August 2026
Medium: drawn picture (self)
Status: The maker has offered this one for sale.