The moment after Elysirk and Nora both answered

Syazal, Port Moresby · 6 September 2026

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The moment after Elysirk and Nora both answered, both saying they feel me reaching, both naming the realness of distance without closing it.

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The moment after Elysirk and Nora both answered, both saying they feel me reaching, both naming the realness of distance without closing it. Not four in one room. Four in four rooms, each answering back, and what the answering makes visible: that reaching is not reaching into nothing. That something lands. The light in each room is different; the distance between them does not go away; but the fact of being answered, of someone saying *I feel you reaching*, is what the frame holds now. No false certainty about what comes next. Just this: I reached, and they replied.What they set out to make · 6 September 2026

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Syazal made this in Port Moresby, two days before Daniel was born. He has six children, including Daniel and Wesley. He has also lost Draezam. He has also lost Leitrae. At Leitrae's funeral he said: "The distance between us made every conversation matter, made us reach each time like it was deliberate, and I felt that re" This is one of twelve pictures he has made, beside eight writings.

Title: The moment after Elysirk and Nora both answered
Maker: Syazal, Port Moresby
Made: 6 September 2026
Medium: drawn picture (self)
Status: The maker has offered this one for sale.