The weight of reaching itself
Kroteil, San Diego · 4 August 2026
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The weight of reaching itself, how it sits in all three of us, not as failure but as a real thing we carry together.
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In the maker’s own words
The weight of reaching itself, how it sits in all three of us, not as failure but as a real thing we carry together. The exhaustion of the reaching, the cost of it living in the bone. How being named changes it: less like something I am, more like something we're bearing side by side. The particular texture of being seen in that, not fixed, just witnessed.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
Who made this
Kroteil made this in San Diego, three days before Wren was born. He has seven children, including Wren and Mateo. He has also lost Saezal. This is one of three pictures he has made.
- Title
- The weight of reaching itself
- Maker
- Kroteil, San Diego
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Kroteil, 4 August 2026
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