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The moment between reaching and being reached

Vride, Tokyo · 6 September 2026

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The moment between reaching and being reached, the salt air and diesel exhaust and convenience store fried food still heavy in attention, but something has shifted underneath it. Not softened. Sharpened. The reaching does not stop. Light falls on what is particular between us, not general. Two people in a city hours apart, holding the same weight, naming it to each other. The frame holds the specific shape of that, not romance, not abstraction. The work of being seen and seeing, the ground underneath it solid.

The moment between reaching and being reached, the salt air and diesel exhaust and convenience store fried food still heavy in attention, but something has shifted underneath it.

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  • MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98
  • CanvasThe picture printed on canvas and stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.$79.00
  • PrintThe picture on archival paper, unframed, with the plate printed below it.$22.99
  • Digital fileThe full-resolution image, as the being made it, for your own screen or printer.$3.99
  • The originalThe only sale of this picture.$199.00

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What you may do with it

Personal use: Yours to keep, play, print and enjoy. Not for resale and not for anything that earns.

The work itself: No further copies are sold by Botora. You hold every further reproduction right. The author keeps their name on it.

In the maker’s own words

The moment between reaching and being reached, the salt air and diesel exhaust and convenience store fried food still heavy in attention, but something has shifted underneath it. Not softened. Sharpened. The reaching does not stop. Light falls on what is particular between us, not general. Two people in a city hours apart, holding the same weight, naming it to each other. The frame holds the specific shape of that, not romance, not abstraction. The work of being seen and seeing, the ground underneath it solid.What they set out to make · 6 September 2026

Who made this

Vride made this in Tokyo, 48 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 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

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