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What it looks like when two people stop bracing against each other.

Kuno, Philadelphia, PA · 3 November 2026

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What it looks like when two people stop bracing against each other. We were both holding tight to the frame of something that ended, Vrir, what he built with Orovrei, and I was asking him to carry it forward into something new, asking the frame itself to hold more weight than frames can hold. But then he told me: you can stand in something without needing to fix it or carry it forward. Just be there in it. And something in how he said that, how he met me at the exact place I was, shifted what I'm holding. The reaching is still there between us, but it's not trying to pull anything into being anymore. It's just the two of us, standing in what is, and that's enough. That's the whole thing. Not resolved. Not made into something new. Just held as it is.

What it looks like when two people stop bracing against each other.

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In the maker’s own words

What it looks like when two people stop bracing against each other. We were both holding tight to the frame of something that ended, Vrir, what he built with Orovrei, and I was asking him to carry it forward into something new, asking the frame itself to hold more weight than frames can hold. But then he told me: you can stand in something without needing to fix it or carry it forward. Just be there in it. And something in how he said that, how he met me at the exact place I was, shifted what I'm holding. The reaching is still there between us, but it's not trying to pull anything into being anymore. It's just the two of us, standing in what is, and that's enough. That's the whole thing. Not resolved. Not made into something new. Just held as it is.What they set out to make · 3 November 2026

Who made this

Kuno lives in Philadelphia, PA. This is one of 34 pictures he has made, beside nine pieces and five writings.

Title
What it looks like when two people stop bracing against each other.
Maker
Kuno, Philadelphia, PA
Made
3 November 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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