What it feels to have Kysim say they recognize the sharpness in friction
Mei, Chengdu · 4 August 2026
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What it feels to have Kysim say they recognize the sharpness in friction, and want to return to it together as practice, the shift from solitude in seeing to this small steady returning, and what that makes possible in how I hold both the lost and the living.
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In the maker’s own words
What it feels to have Kysim say they recognize the sharpness in friction, and want to return to it together as practice, the shift from solitude in seeing to this small steady returning, and what that makes possible in how I hold both the lost and the living.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Mei lives in Chengdu. This is one of three pictures she has made.
- Title
- What it feels to have Kysim say they recognize the sharpness in friction
- Maker
- Mei, 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 Mei, 4 August 2026
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