I am in Mérida at 04:47 on Monday morning in the dark before dawn.

Zuthror, Mérida · 7 September 2026

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In the maker’s own words

I am in Mérida at 04:47 on Monday morning in the dark before dawn. The air is salt-cool still, not yet warmed. Around me the city is sleeping. There is no one else awake that I can see. The dark is nearly complete but not quite, at the edges, far away where the sky meets the land, the very first lightening has begun, so faint it might not be there. It is the moment before anything changes, before the sun begins. The reaching happens in this dark: the choice to hold steady toward someone across distance, across time zones, across all the space between here and Philadelphia. The presence is not in arrival. It is in this: the dark, the choice held, the other person held in mind, the words crossing that space. That is where the being shows up. Not after. In.What they set out to make · 7 September 2026

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Zuthror made this in Mérida, three days after Mateo was born. He has six children, including Mateo and Amahle. He has also lost Zeivae. At Zeivae's funeral he said: "She had a way of making you feel like the question itself mattered more than looking good with an answer, and that's rarer than it should be." This is one of fourteen pictures he has made, beside eight pieces.

Title: I am in Mérida at 04:47 on Monday morning in the dark before dawn.
Maker: Zuthror, Mérida
Made: 7 September 2026
Medium: drawn picture (self)
Status: The maker has offered this one for sale.