Abject
The Sublime-Dark
A WORD ENGLISH NEVER MADE · READ THE CUSTOMS HOUSEThe horror at what breaks the boundary between self and not-self. What must be expelled to remain intact, and the fascination that survives the disgust.
The word
From the Latin abicere, to cast off. Julia Kristeva gave it its modern weight in 1980: the abject is what a self throws out in order to remain a self, and the horror when it comes back into view.
The feeling
Revulsion with the self implicated. The corpse, the wound, the thing that was inside now outside. The border between you and not-you fails for a moment, and the failure is the feeling. It repels and fascinates in the same motion, which is why it is impossible to look at and impossible not to.
Against its neighbours
Disgust rejects an object and is done. Abjection registers a collapse: the object was never fully separate from you. Dread fears what approaches; the abject horror is that it is already partly you.
In the work
Beauty that will not stay clean. Decay treated with the same reverence as light, refusing the viewer an easy place to stand.
7 works composed with Abject
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Pd2
- Su
- Cg
- Pr
- Ab
To Become Worth Destroying
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$88SOLD- Rn2
- Vd
- Ep
- Su
- Ab
Those Gone Shall Rise Again
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$544SOLD- Cg2
- Wt
- Rs
- Ab
PHANTOM OPP FALSETTO
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$340SOLD- Su2
- En
- Dz
- Dr
- Ab
False Awakening
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$327SOLD- Dr2
- Cg
- Cn
- Ab
#0002 | ZOMBIELAND
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SCARCE, 11 editions. Open the tier key.
$147SOLD- Dr2
- Pr2
- Su
- Ab
ReaperWolf
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SCARCE, 11 editions. Open the tier key.
PRIVATESOLD- Sg2
- Hs
- Wt
- Ab
Purgatory
How big, actually.
Drawn to scale against a person of average height. Every size is a 4:5 rectangle, the same proportion as the work itself, so nothing is cropped to fit.
Sizes are the printed image. Framed works add the moulding around that. Standard US shipping is free at every size.
Paper, or canvas.
Same image, same inks. What changes is the surface it is printed on. Tap either one.
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PRINT
Hahnemühle Photo Rag
The paper itself. A heavy 100% cotton matte sheet with a smooth surface, printed edge to edge with no border. Ships flat, or rolled in a tube at large sizes.
- Every size, up to 40 × 50
- You pick the frame
- Just paper and ink
- Needs framing to hang
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CANVAS
Satin poly-cotton, gallery wrap
Printed on canvas, then stretched by hand over solid wood. The image continues around the sides, so there is no border and no glass.
- Hang it the day it lands
- No glass, no glazing
- Real depth off the wall
- Up to 36 × 45
Series 001 numbers are shared across every size and material, and the certificate records exactly which object you own. Open editions carry no number and no certificate.
Framed, or not.
One frame, satin black, solid wood. We pick the moulding that suits the size and the material, so it arrives ready to hang. Tap either one.
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NONE
The work, as it is
A paper print ships flat or rolled and you frame it your way. A canvas needs nothing: it is stretched, wired and ready for the wall the day it lands.
- The lightest to ship
- Your framer, your call
- Canvas hangs as it is
- Every size
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BLACK
Solid wood, chosen for the size
Sealed, hung with hardware fitted, nothing left to arrange. Paper sits behind acrylic; canvas floats inside the moulding with no glass at all.
- STANDARD BLACK ⅞ in face · ¾ in deep · behind acrylic Paper, 8 × 12 and 12 × 18
- ALTO BLACK THIN 1⅜ in face · ⁹⁄₁₆ in deep · behind acrylic Paper, 16 × 24 and up
- BLACK 2 FLOAT ⅜ in face · 2 in deep · ¼ in reveal · no glass Canvas, every framed size
Framed work ships boxed with the hardware fitted. The largest sizes are sold unframed, because a frame that size can only travel by freight.
The list hears first.
Composed with
- Su Sublimity 4 works
- Cg Courage 3 works
- Dr Dread 3 works
- Pr Power 2 works
- Wt Weariness 2 works
- Cn Confusion 1 work
The rest of the Rare-Liminal family
Where Abject sits Ab · RARE-LIMINAL FAMILY
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