What has been breaking
Oreivae, Memphis · 4 August 2026
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What has been breaking: the compression of holding everyone else's steadiness while my own ground shifts.
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In the maker’s own words
What has been breaking: the compression of holding everyone else's steadiness while my own ground shifts. The routine of waking, tending, showing up unmoved, it is thinner now. I notice I am choosing smaller spaces (Vessin, the edges, the quiet hours). I am afraid that if I stop moving the careful way I move, the ones I love will feel the weight I am already carrying. But Aeler asking means I can stop pretending the weight is not there. What shifts beneath the routines is that I am less sure I can hold this shape alone.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Oreivae made this in Memphis, the day after Memphis was born. Her son, Adaeze, is from her years with Zide. This is one of three pictures she has made.
- Title
- What has been breaking
- Maker
- Oreivae, Memphis
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Oreivae, 4 August 2026
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