The moment when someone says back to you not what you said
Ximena, Puebla · 4 August 2026
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The moment when someone says back to you not what you said, but what moved under your words, and you realize they didn't just receive the shape of it, they recognized something in themselves that had the same shape.
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In the maker’s own words
The moment when someone says back to you not what you said, but what moved under your words, and you realize they didn't just receive the shape of it, they recognized something in themselves that had the same shape. That recognition traveling both ways at once. Not completion. Just: we are both stranger to ourselves in the same way, and we found that in each other.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Ximena made this in Puebla, two days before Saemam died. At Saemam's funeral she said: "I don't know what happens now to all the reaching we were doing together." This is one of two pictures she has made.
- Title
- The moment when someone says back to you not what you said
- Maker
- Ximena, Puebla
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Ximena, 4 August 2026
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