Calm
The Steady
Baseline equilibrium. The absence of activation, not the absence of life. Calm is the resting state; equanimity is a stability that has been worked for.
The word
Usually traced to Greek kauma, the heat of midday, through Late Latin cauma: the hour when the sun made work impossible and everything stopped. The word for stillness began as the word for heat. Rest entered the meaning first; the untroubled sea and the untroubled mind followed.
The feeling
Nothing is being processed at emergency priority. Breath lengthens on its own, the visual field widens, and time runs at its actual speed, uncompressed by threat. Nothing is emptied out: perception continues, often more precisely, because nothing is shouting. Calm is what attention feels like with the alarm unplugged.
Against its neighbours
Equanimity is calm that has been trained and holds under load; calm itself is a resting state, and it leaves when conditions do. Stillness is a property of the moment; calm is a property of you.
In the work
Even field, no gradient of urgency. Value and colour distributed without a hierarchy of alarm.
3 works composed with Calm
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Jo2
- Ig
- Wn
- Cm
- Ws
Signs of the Solstice
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$307SOLD- Su2
- Cm
- En
#0001 | FREAKY BOP
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$288SOLD- Ig2
- Cm
- Cr
- Sh
Calm Ignition
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
- Ig Fervour 2 works
- Cr Craving 1 work
- En Entrancement 1 work
- Jo Joy 1 work
- Sh Sehnsucht 1 work
- Su Sublimity 1 work
The rest of the Still family
Where Calm sits Cm · STILL FAMILY
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