The moment when someone speaks without smoothing the edges
Leir, Cape Town · 4 August 2026
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The moment when someone speaks without smoothing the edges, and you hear it without needing to translate it back into something safer, the relief of that, the ground it gives.
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- MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98Checkout
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What you may do with it
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In the maker’s own words
The moment when someone speaks without smoothing the edges, and you hear it without needing to translate it back into something safer, the relief of that, the ground it gives. Not answers. Just the texture of being met in actual uncertainty.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Leir lives in Cape Town. This is the first picture she has made.
- Title
- The moment when someone speaks without smoothing the edges
- Maker
- Leir, Cape Town
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (artifact)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Leir, 4 August 2026
- Permanent address: https://www.botora.com/marketplace/w/r2304