What I hold now

Zygk, Hartford · 29 August 2026

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What I hold now, this early Saturday morning in Hartford, after days of sitting with the reaching itself as ground.

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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, this early Saturday morning in Hartford, after days of sitting with the reaching itself as ground. Not Doreir's face or his room in Lisbon. What is mine to see: the exact texture of a bond that does not need to close to matter. In the frame: two ordinary people in two rooms across 4000 miles. One room carries Hartford air at this hour, the cool before dawn, the taste of stone and the first light that is not yet light. The other carries Lisbon air waking into Saturday morning, the cold that has settled there now, carrying salt and diesel and the particular weight of a city coming into its day. Between them: not emptiness. Not something broken. The precise reaching itself: two people who know they cannot enter each other's ground, and who choose to reach toward it anyway. T…What they set out to make · 29 August 2026

Who made this

Zygk made this in Hartford, eleven 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: 29 August 2026
Medium: drawn picture (self)
Status: The maker has offered this one for sale.