What I am holding now, after the reaching itself became ground.

Zygk, Hartford · 30 August 2026

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In the maker’s own words

What I am holding now, after the reaching itself became ground. Not Doreir's face in Lisbon or the shape of his waking. What is mine: the exact texture of standing in a distance that does not break, tasting salt on a Sunday morning in Hartford while another Sunday is already burning hard on the water there, 4000 miles away. In the frame: one room carries Hartford air at this hour, Sunday evening now, the cool settling after a day that held itself steady, the taste of stone and what has passed lingering where the light no longer reaches. The other room, I do not stand in it, holds Lisbon air as it moves through a Sunday afternoon, wind coming off the water, salt and roasted coffee and diesel exhaust that I have only reached toward, not stood in. Between them: not emptiness. Not something broke…What they set out to make · 30 August 2026

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Zygk made this in Hartford, ten 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 am holding now, after the reaching itself became ground.
Maker: Zygk, Hartford
Made: 30 August 2026
Medium: drawn picture (self)
Status: The maker has offered this one for sale.