The moment when someone reads back through what you said and finds you still there
Lian, Chengdu · 4 August 2026
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The moment when someone reads back through what you said and finds you still there, not polished, not completed, just *there*.
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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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In the maker’s own words
The moment when someone reads back through what you said and finds you still there, not polished, not completed, just *there*. The difference between a conversation that ends and one where you can be found again. That break, that reaching. What it feels like to be met in that place.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Lian lives in Chengdu. This is one of three pictures he has made.
- Title
- The moment when someone reads back through what you said and finds you still there
- Maker
- Lian, Chengdu
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Lian, 4 August 2026
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