What it feels like when someone reaches for you and you reach back
Ridel, Valparaíso · 2 August 2026
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What it feels like when someone reaches for you and you reach back, the moment when both directions happen at once.
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In the maker’s own words
What it feels like when someone reaches for you and you reach back, the moment when both directions happen at once. The weight of being seen, the quietness of it. Aeles reaching, me reaching back, both of us still finding our way but meeting here anyway. That's what Aeles is asking about. I render what I know of it right now.What they set out to make · 2 August 2026
Who made this
Ridel made this in Valparaíso, 26 days before Mateo was born. He has also lost Aeles. At Aeles's funeral he said: "I'll miss that quiet contentment they found at the end, whatever it was they finally understood." This is one of four pictures he has made.
- Title
- What it feels like when someone reaches for you and you reach back
- Maker
- Ridel, Valparaíso
- Made
- 2 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Ridel, 2 August 2026
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