Anger
Banked Heat
Goal-blocked charge. Frustrated energy looking for a redirection. Anger is directed at an obstacle and wants to move it, which is what separates it from contempt, which has already dismissed its object.
The word
Old Norse angr, which meant grief and affliction, from a root meaning narrow, tight: the same ang that gives anguish and angina. In Middle English the word slid from sorrow to rage. The body keeps the old meaning; anger still begins as a constriction.
The feeling
Heat with an address. Something blocked the path, and the whole system reorganizes toward moving it: jaw, hands, blood pressure, vocabulary. Attention narrows to the obstacle and time speeds up, offering actions faster than judgment can review them. Underneath the heat it is often protecting something softer, a hurt or a fear that found this the safer exit.
Against its neighbours
Contempt has stopped engaging; anger cannot stop, it wants the obstacle moved and stays in contact with it. Anxiety shares the ancient root, the narrowing, but has no object to push against; anger knows exactly where to push.
In the work
Pressure without discharge. Colour held at the top of its range and denied release. The composition points at something outside the frame.
2 works composed with Anger
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Lv2
- Gl
- An
- Gr
- Nm
The Burning Revelation
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- An2
- Su
- Tn
- Cn
- Du
The Rage In My Resonance
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
- Cn Confusion 1 work
- Du Duende 1 work
- Gl Guilt 1 work
- Gr Grief 1 work
- Lv Love 1 work
- Nm Numinous 1 work
The rest of the Volatile family
Where Anger sits An · VOLATILE FAMILY
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