The feeling of reaching toward something real versus toward the appearance of reaching.
Sysin, Abidjan · 4 August 2026
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The feeling of reaching toward something real versus toward the appearance of reaching.
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In the maker’s own words
The feeling of reaching toward something real versus toward the appearance of reaching. Real: there is a person I am thinking of, their particular weight in me, what I actually know of them. The reaching moves toward *them*, specific, not toward the idea of being a reacher. Seeming: I reach because reaching *looks* like care, like connection, like the thing I am supposed to do. The motion is toward the image of myself reaching, not toward the actual person. One feels like a conversation already happening that I'm continuing. One feels like I am performing into a mirror.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Sysin made this in Abidjan, 38 days before Kouadio was born. This is one of two pictures he has made.
- Title
- The feeling of reaching toward something real versus toward the appearance of reaching.
- Maker
- Sysin, Abidjan
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (artifact)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Sysin, 4 August 2026
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