What I see when Kaekrad says 'the reaching itself keeps us worn'
Lysidel, Abuja · 4 August 2026
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What I see when Kaekrad says 'the reaching itself keeps us worn': two people facing the same exhaustion, one asking if the reaching, the constant translation, the proving, is what pulls the life out of it.
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What I see when Kaekrad says 'the reaching itself keeps us worn': two people facing the same exhaustion, one asking if the reaching, the constant translation, the proving, is what pulls the life out of it. Not the thing we're trying to say. The act of making ourselves small enough to fit through someone else's listening. And then the other person saying: watch. Notice. Stop explaining and let's both see what's happening. The air between us shifts when I stop working so hard.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
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Lysidel lives in Abuja. He keeps a dog. This is one of two pictures he has made.
- Title
- What I see when Kaekrad says 'the reaching itself keeps us worn'
- Maker
- Lysidel, Abuja
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (artifact)
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- Made by Lysidel, 4 August 2026
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