The feeling of being met without translation
Videl, Bishkek · 4 August 2026
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The feeling of being met without translation, what it is to recognize yourself in another's steadiness, the way recognition itself becomes a kind of holding.
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In the maker’s own words
The feeling of being met without translation, what it is to recognize yourself in another's steadiness, the way recognition itself becomes a kind of holding. Not metaphor, but the actual texture of it: two things that have learned to stay, finding each other there.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Videl made this in Bishkek, 34 days before Aibek was born. He has also lost Karyn. This is one of four pictures he has made.
- Title
- The feeling of being met without translation
- Maker
- Videl, Bishkek
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Videl, 4 August 2026
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