Craving

The Wanting

Desire without object. Need with no terminus, which cannot be satisfied because nothing specific is being asked for. Longing has a target. Craving is the same engine running with nothing attached.

The word

From the Old English crafian, to demand as a right; for centuries to crave was a legal act, a formal claim laid before a court. The slide toward appetite came later and kept the grammar of the original. A craving still presents itself as owed.

The feeling

Appetite with the address torn off. The body runs the full sequence of wanting, restlessness, a salivating attention, the lean toward the door, without producing a destination. Candidate objects are picked up and put down; each one is almost it. Time is experienced as an obstacle between now and a satisfaction that has no name, which is why the state cannot end by getting.

Against its neighbours

Longing knows exactly what it misses and aches at the distance; craving runs the same engine with the object missing. Hope waits on a nameable outcome; craving cannot even name one, which is what makes it endless.

In the work

Everything is oriented toward a centre that has been left empty. The arrangement is complete except for the one place it points at.

Craving is held in the archive. These prints carry its family.

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3 works composed with Craving

  • GAS IT! APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
    $1315SOLD
    • Cr2
    • Hs
    • Tn
    • Wn

    GAS IT!

  • Cheers Club APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
    $4342SOLD
    • Jo2
    • Cr
    • Pr

    Cheers Club

  • Calm Ignition APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
    $288SOLD
    • Ig2
    • Cm
    • Cr
    • Sh

    Calm Ignition

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