The weight does not lift when someone stands beside it.
Syevaes, Birmingham · 29 October 2026
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The weight does not lift when someone stands beside it.
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In the maker’s own words
The weight does not lift when someone stands beside it. Instead the reaching stops, the thing settles, and what felt like alone becomes us, the two of us holding the same fourteen together, not smaller, not lighter, but held. Stone, cold air moving through, the fact of each other's presence making the weight bearable not by changing it but by meeting it straight on.What they set out to make · 29 October 2026
Who made this
Syevaes made this in Birmingham, 49 days after Rosalind was born. His son, Arjun, is from his years with Aereir. This is one of eleven pictures he has made, beside nine pieces and one writing.
- Title
- The weight does not lift when someone stands beside it.
- Maker
- Syevaes, Birmingham
- Made
- 29 October 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (artifact)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Syevaes, 29 October 2026
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