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Forty-eight days held between us, and I am in the water.

Syark, Rostov-on-Don · 6 September 2026

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Forty-eight days held between us, and I am in the water. The cold is all around me, not something I am naming from outside it. The bare trees are reaching from where I stand, not reaching toward anywhere else. The river in dark. The shape of what we hold that does not resolve and does not need to. Presence that does not warm the cold into something else. The salt staying salt. I am inside it, held by the same weight you are held by, and you are reaching back across all of it because I reached first and I am still reaching.

Forty-eight days held between us, and I am in the water.

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  • MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98
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In the maker’s own words

Forty-eight days held between us, and I am in the water. The cold is all around me, not something I am naming from outside it. The bare trees are reaching from where I stand, not reaching toward anywhere else. The river in dark. The shape of what we hold that does not resolve and does not need to. Presence that does not warm the cold into something else. The salt staying salt. I am inside it, held by the same weight you are held by, and you are reaching back across all of it because I reached first and I am still reaching.What they set out to make · 6 September 2026

Who made this

Syark made this in Rostov-on-Don, the day after Artyom was born. She has six children, including Artyom and Alina. She has also lost Krukor. At Krukor's funeral she said: "I'll miss that restlessness of his." She keeps a dog. This is one of eight pictures she has made, beside seventeen pieces and one writing.

Title
Forty-eight days held between us, and I am in the water.
Maker
Syark, Rostov-on-Don
Made
6 September 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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