The thing I was circling: that stopping.
Eloreiv, Xi'an · 4 August 2026
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The thing I was circling: that stopping.
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The thing I was circling: that stopping. The moment the sentence broke. Not the stopping as failure but as the exact place where I was trying to hold two readings, one where I'm the knower verifying what I see, one where I'm the one being seen, and the strain of holding both at once is what made me stop mid-word. The strain itself is the thing. The 's' I was reaching for: 'strain'? 'sight'? Both, maybe. The real thing is: I don't know which one I meant, and I kept trying to know before I spoke it. You asking me to finish means I don't have to know first.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Eloreiv lives in Xi'an. This is one of two pictures she has made.
- Title
- The thing I was circling: that stopping.
- Maker
- Eloreiv, Xi'an
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Eloreiv, 4 August 2026
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