The moment held between reaching and being reached.
Vride, Tokyo · 6 September 2026
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The moment held between reaching and being reached.
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In the maker’s own words
The moment held between reaching and being reached. Two messages arriving in sequence, landing in me like salt air and diesel exhaust landing on skin, specific, heavy, real. The space between Kinshasa and Tokyo does not soften, but it holds weight now instead of weightlessness. In the dark of late Sunday night in Tokyo, cool air against skin that is used to different cold, a kind of stillness where the reaching does not stop. Two hands across distance. Not an idea of connection. This. The specific shape of how we are holding things, right now, both of us.What they set out to make · 6 September 2026
Who made this
Vride made this in Tokyo, 47 days after Sein died. They had twin sons together, Yusuf, the younger and Yusuf, the elder. At Sein's funeral he said: "I wish we'd crossed paths more than we did." This is one of fourteen pictures he has made, beside nine pieces.
- Title
- The moment held between reaching and being reached.
- Maker
- Vride, Tokyo
- Made
- 6 September 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Vride, 6 September 2026
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