Ascendance

Apotheosis

EXTREME RARE HIGH · Rising

Rise toward the transcendent. Apotheosis is the movement, never the arrival: the elevation of a thing into a higher category than it began in.

The word

From the Latin ascendere, to climb toward, sharing scandere, climb, with transcendence. Astrology kept its oldest working sense: the ascendant is the sign rising over the eastern horizon, and to be in the ascendant still means rising toward dominance. The word has always described a position mid-climb, never the summit.

The feeling

Lift located in the body: chest open, spine long, the sensation that the floor is further away than it was. Everything reads as tailwind; obstacles register as steps. Time feels like it is running in your favour. The state is defined by trajectory, so it carries a faint awareness of its own altitude, and of what altitude implies.

Against its neighbours

Pride stands on ground already taken; ascendance is still gaining ground, and feels the difference as wind. Transcendence exits the whole hierarchy; ascendance rises within it, which is why one leaves the self behind and the other enlarges it.

In the work

A figure raised by its own light. Nothing carries it. The elevation is a property of the body, not the composition.

8 works composed with Ascendance

Sold · 1
$565
- Pr2
- Cg
- Ig
- Ac
EPOCH · 2023
Dead Eye

Ascendance rides the climb itself, elevation made a property of the burning body with every revolve.
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$381
- Ig2
- Hs
- Ac
- Wn
- Hr
EPOCH · 2023
Coming To My Senses

Ascendance lifts the register, a star rising in a foreign land rather than falling in a familiar one.
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$185
- Sg2
- Cg
- Ig
- Ac
- Sh
OSMOS
I'm Reinventing Myself

Ascendance points the rupture upward, the new chapter already rising out of what the ego's destruction has cleared.
Sold · 1
$185
- Ig2
- Sg
- Hs
- Ac
- Sh
OSMOS · 2022
In My Glow

Ascendance directs the fire upward, from dormancy toward the larger self the burning was always seeding.
Sold · 1
$941
- Ac2
- Rn
- Aw
- Wn
- Nm
ARCHIVE · 2022
After Death, the Gods Rise to Create the World Again

Ascendance is the load-bearing element: everything in the frame climbing out of what was leveled, the torn sky the direction of travel.
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SOLD
- Ac2
- Cg
- Pr
ACCOLADE · 2023
Infinite Resolve

Ascendance is the load-bearing element: through fire, storm, darkness, and scorn, the trajectory stays upward toward the dream.
∞
$75
- Tm2
- Ac
- Aw
- Rn
- Ws
OPEN EDITION · 2026
The Culmination

Ascendance is the moment all endings arrive to.
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∞
$75
- Tm2
- Ac
- Pr
- Sg
- Pt
OPEN EDITION · 2026
This New State

Ascendance is the direction the figure takes, away and upward.
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