Awe-Quiet
Settled-Awe
Awe after the overwhelm passes. The settling of magnitude, once the thing that exceeded the categories has been absorbed and the categories have changed. Awe is the encounter. This is the afterward.
The word
Awe reaches English from Old Norse agi, dread, and the dictionaries stop at the encounter: they offer nothing for what follows it. So the taxonomy built the compound itself, awe then quiet, the magnitude with the alarm subtracted. It is the newest kind of word here, a name for a phase rather than a find.
The feeling
The heart rate has come down and the scale has not. Whatever exceeded the categories is still there, sky, sea, cathedral, image, but it has stopped arriving and started residing. Breathing lengthens. You can look at the enormous thing steadily now, the way you cannot during awe itself, and the looking asks for nothing.
Against its neighbours
Awe is the encounter: categories failing in real time, the self shrinking on contact. Awe-quiet is the afterward, once the magnitude has been absorbed and the alarm has left. Stillness can arrive without any encounter at all; awe-quiet has to be earned through one.
In the work
Scale rendered without threat. The magnitude is still present and no longer arriving.
Awe-Quiet is held in the archive. These prints carry its family.
Open editions from $75. Free US shipping.
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Eq2
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Answers Found In Silence
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Crowned In Ashes
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For a Moment the Waters Stood Still
1 work composed with Awe-Quiet
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
The rest of the Still family
Where Awe-Quiet sits Aq · STILL FAMILY
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