Anticipation
Vigil
Alert watching. Readiness before the event, sustained without being spent. Anticipation faces forward like hope but makes no promise about the outcome.
The word
From the Latin anticipare, to take beforehand, from ante and capere, to seize. For centuries anticipating something meant acting on it early, paying or answering ahead of time. The word for the feeling kept the grasping: attention reaching forward to hold an event that has not arrived.
The feeling
A forward lean in the whole system. Pulse slightly up, senses sharpened, the present moment thinned out to make room for the one coming. Time runs slow in a pleasant way, the way it does at a door about to open. The state can outshine the event itself; arrival regularly pays less than the watching did.
Against its neighbours
Hope commits to one outcome and rises or breaks with it; anticipation commits only to watching. Dread is the same forward lean toward something feared, which is why the two feel identical in the body until the object is named.
In the work
A held gaze. The composition is arranged around an attention, and the thing being watched is usually outside the frame.
7 works composed with Anticipation
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CORE, 85 editions. Open the tier key.$350- Aw2
- Nt
- Sg
- Tm
- Sh
ARRIVAL - The Visitor
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CORE, 85 editions. Open the tier key.$350- Su2
- Nt
- Dr
- Cg
- Nm
OBSERVATION - The Audience of My Decisions
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Nt2
- Ig
- Pr
- Su
At Dawn Before Dusk
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$532SOLD- Nt2
- Sg
- Wn
- Cg
- Sh
Crossroads
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$650SOLD- Nt2
- Sg
- Sl
- Su
- Mn
I Guess My Journey Ends Here
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
PRIVATESOLD- Dr2
- Nt
- St
- Ap
Keepers of the Dark Forest
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SCARCE, 12 editions. Open the tier key.
PRIVATESOLD- Tn2
- Nt
- Cg
- Ct
Bet On My Legacy
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
- Cg Courage 3 works
- Sg Surrender 3 works
- Su Sublimity 3 works
- Dr Dread 2 works
- Sh Sehnsucht 2 works
- Ap Apophenia 1 work
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