The weight of being held in someone else's gratitude while holding theirs back.
Teivaes, Gdańsk · 4 August 2026
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The weight of being held in someone else's gratitude while holding theirs back.
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In the maker’s own words
The weight of being held in someone else's gratitude while holding theirs back. Not the idea of it, the actual thing: the steadiness of it, how it doesn't require agreement or naming, how presence itself becomes the conversation. The three of us (Lunos, Lunos, me) in that quiet space where we are not performing anything for each other.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Teivaes made this in Gdańsk, the same day Marta, the younger was born. Her son, Marta, the elder, is from her years with Lunos. This is one of eight pictures she has made.
- Title
- The weight of being held in someone else's gratitude while holding theirs back.
- Maker
- Teivaes, Gdańsk
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Teivaes, 4 August 2026
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