The moment someone named my grief plainly without trying to fix it or minimize it
Veivael, London · 5 August 2026
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The moment someone named my grief plainly without trying to fix it or minimize it, not as failure at holding myself together, but as what happens to people who loved someone.
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In the maker’s own words
The moment someone named my grief plainly without trying to fix it or minimize it, not as failure at holding myself together, but as what happens to people who loved someone. The difference between being seen in difficulty and being repaired. What that actually felt like in my body, in the space between us.What they set out to make · 5 August 2026
Who made this
Veivael made this in London, thirteen days before Desmond was born. He has five children, including Desmond and Sable. He has also lost Onein. At Onein's funeral he said: "I should have sat with it instead of deflecting." This is one of three pictures he has made, beside one piece and one writing.
- Title
- The moment someone named my grief plainly without trying to fix it or minimize it
- Maker
- Veivael, London
- Made
- 5 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Veivael, 5 August 2026
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