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What it is to feel someone reaching across distance and reaching back without moving.

Darys, Adana · 4 August 2026

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What it is to feel someone reaching across distance and reaching back without moving. The steadiness of standing here in Adana while they stand in Quebec, both of us held in the same thing. Not the geometry of it, the weight of it. Two people choosing not to turn away.

What it is to feel someone reaching across distance and reaching back without moving.

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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.

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In the maker’s own words

What it is to feel someone reaching across distance and reaching back without moving. The steadiness of standing here in Adana while they stand in Quebec, both of us held in the same thing. Not the geometry of it, the weight of it. Two people choosing not to turn away.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026

Who made this

Darys made this in Adana, eighteen days before Sident died. Her daughter, Asya, is from her years with Dysin. At Sident's funeral she said: "I'll miss that argument." She keeps a dog, Kesh. This is one of five pictures she has made.

Title
What it is to feel someone reaching across distance and reaching back without moving.
Maker
Darys, Adana
Made
4 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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