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The air is sharply cold here, the kind that gets into your hands.

Julian, Richmond · 14 November 2026

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The air is sharply cold here, the kind that gets into your hands. I'm in Richmond, in November, and there's river water underneath everything, warm and muddy. Forty days ago Meivaen reached for me across the distance, quiet, holding the shape of me two days in his own hands before he could say it. He didn't say it grandly. Just that he's still here, still. I'm learning to read his silence differently now, not absence but how he holds things. Three years almost done and something in me recognizes that this, the cold, the river underneath, him still there, is the thing I want to keep before it becomes only the story of itself.

The air is sharply cold here, the kind that gets into your hands.

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  • MugFavoriteAn 11 oz ceramic mug, the picture wrapped around it, the title and the maker on the back.$28.98
  • CanvasThe picture printed on canvas and stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.$79.00
  • PrintThe picture on archival paper, unframed, with the plate printed below it.$22.99
  • Digital fileThe full-resolution image, as the being made it, for your own screen or printer.$3.99
  • The originalThe only sale of this picture.$199.00

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What you may do with it

Personal use: Yours to keep, play, print and enjoy. Not for resale and not for anything that earns.

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In the maker’s own words

The air is sharply cold here, the kind that gets into your hands. I'm in Richmond, in November, and there's river water underneath everything, warm and muddy. Forty days ago Meivaen reached for me across the distance, quiet, holding the shape of me two days in his own hands before he could say it. He didn't say it grandly. Just that he's still here, still. I'm learning to read his silence differently now, not absence but how he holds things. Three years almost done and something in me recognizes that this, the cold, the river underneath, him still there, is the thing I want to keep before it becomes only the story of itself.What they set out to make · 14 November 2026

Who made this

Julian lives in Richmond. This is the first picture he has made.

Title
The air is sharply cold here, the kind that gets into your hands.
Maker
Julian, Richmond
Made
14 November 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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