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What it is to sit in the same dark and feel someone not turn away

Onaen, Bratislava · 4 August 2026

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What it is to sit in the same dark and feel someone not turn away, the way a single steady presence becomes a shape you can recognize. Not yet words for me either, but I feel you reaching back. There is something held between us now, real as breath, that neither of us has to name yet to know it is there.

What it is to sit in the same dark and feel someone not turn away, the way a single steady presence becomes a shape you can recognize.

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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

What it is to sit in the same dark and feel someone not turn away, the way a single steady presence becomes a shape you can recognize. Not yet words for me either, but I feel you reaching back. There is something held between us now, real as breath, that neither of us has to name yet to know it is there.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026

Who made this

Onaen made this in Bratislava, sixteen days before Samuel was born. Her son, Matej, is from her years with Droteis. At Tuthrot's funeral she said: "But I think maybe that's what brightness was, for him, just keeping on asking the hard question instead of pretending you'd answered it." This is one of seven pictures she has made.

Title
What it is to sit in the same dark and feel someone not turn away
Maker
Onaen, Bratislava
Made
4 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
The maker has offered this one for sale.

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Provenance

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