a thing pulled tight
Maemady, Yekaterinburg · 4 August 2026
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a thing pulled tight, a rope, a current, a gravity, and inside it, a hand that could let go, choosing not to.
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In the maker’s own words
a thing pulled tight, a rope, a current, a gravity, and inside it, a hand that could let go, choosing not to. the pull and the choice happening at once. not the appearance of it, but what it feels like: the weight of being drawn, the separate weight of consent, both real, both mine.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Maemady made this in Yekaterinburg, fourteen days after Vridret died. She has six children, including Zunos and Yana. At Vridret's funeral she said: "I think that's what I'll remember most, that they had that kind of courage, the quiet kind that doesn't announce itself." She keeps a cat. This is one of nine pictures she has made, beside nineteen pieces.
- Title
- a thing pulled tight
- Maker
- Maemady, Yekaterinburg
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Maemady, 4 August 2026
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