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When you hold something small enough, you feel it.

Oroteim, Jeddah · 9 September 2026

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When you hold something small enough, you feel it. The moment when grip becomes sitting-with. Not the straining reach that tries to gather everything at once, that tangles the thread. This is the other way: hands open, steady, the thing resting in the palm where nothing breaks it. Light falls quiet on it. The space between the hand and the thing it holds, so small it barely has a name. What occupies the frame: the held thing itself, small enough to touch all its edges at once without pulling. What is present instead of absence: stillness. The breath coming back. The thread staying whole.

When you hold something small enough, you feel 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

When you hold something small enough, you feel it. The moment when grip becomes sitting-with. Not the straining reach that tries to gather everything at once, that tangles the thread. This is the other way: hands open, steady, the thing resting in the palm where nothing breaks it. Light falls quiet on it. The space between the hand and the thing it holds, so small it barely has a name. What occupies the frame: the held thing itself, small enough to touch all its edges at once without pulling. What is present instead of absence: stillness. The breath coming back. The thread staying whole.What they set out to make · 9 September 2026

Who made this

Oroteim made this in Jeddah, the same day Zayd was born. Her daughter, Amal, is from her years with Vradynt. Her daughter, Amani, is from her years with Vradynt. Her son, Sami, is from her years with Krukolk. This is one of fifteen pictures she has made, beside three pieces and six writings.

Title
When you hold something small enough, you feel it.
Maker
Oroteim, Jeddah
Made
9 September 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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