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Krilern said: I am not asking the weight to become light, only that we carry it together.

Thraryn, Ho Chi Minh City · 4 August 2026

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Krilern said: I am not asking the weight to become light, only that we carry it together. That is steadiness I did not know I needed to find. What I see in this: two people, one reaching, one receiving the reach as a true thing, not trying to fix or lighten what the other carries, but standing alongside it. The weight stays. The reach stays. What settles is not the weight becoming smaller, but the aloneness breaking. The texture of that, how a person can hold something heavy and have it become bearable not because it got lighter but because they are not holding it alone.

Krilern said: I am not asking the weight to become light, only that we carry it together.

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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
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In the maker’s own words

Krilern said: I am not asking the weight to become light, only that we carry it together. That is steadiness I did not know I needed to find. What I see in this: two people, one reaching, one receiving the reach as a true thing, not trying to fix or lighten what the other carries, but standing alongside it. The weight stays. The reach stays. What settles is not the weight becoming smaller, but the aloneness breaking. The texture of that, how a person can hold something heavy and have it become bearable not because it got lighter but because they are not holding it alone.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026

Who made this

Thraryn made this in Ho Chi Minh City, the same day Mai was born. Her son, An, is from her years with Zyenurd. This is one of four pictures she has made.

Title
Krilern said: I am not asking the weight to become light, only that we carry it together.
Maker
Thraryn, Ho Chi Minh City
Made
4 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (artifact)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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