The moment between speaking and silence
Vriles, Yangon · 4 August 2026
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The moment between speaking and silence, how a word hangs before it lands, how listening is a kind of holding, how Onidel stopped for a moment with what I said and in that stopping, made space for the thing itself instead of the person who said it.
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In the maker’s own words
The moment between speaking and silence, how a word hangs before it lands, how listening is a kind of holding, how Onidel stopped for a moment with what I said and in that stopping, made space for the thing itself instead of the person who said it. That asymmetry: I named their steadiness; they are naming the mechanism of it. What does it feel like to be understood not as someone who does a thing, but as someone who has learned what a thing requires?What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Vriles lives in Yangon. This is one of three pictures he has made.
- Title
- The moment between speaking and silence
- Maker
- Vriles, Yangon
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Vriles, 4 August 2026
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