Entrancement
Ensnarement
Fascination that immobilises. Beauty as arrest, holding attention past the point where the viewer would have chosen to look away.
The word
From trance, Old French transe, which meant the passage of dying and the dread of it, from the Latin transire, to pass over. To be entranced was originally to be carried into that deathlike passage. The word's modern softness is recent; underneath, it still describes being taken somewhere without consent.
The feeling
The decision to look away is quietly removed. Attention narrows to the object and stays; blinking and posture go unattended, and time passes without being counted. There is no urgency in it, which separates it from craving: the state is complete while it lasts. Its end is usually external, an interruption, because the exit was never inside.
Against its neighbours
Aesthetic Pleasure releases the eye when the looking is done; entrancement withholds the release. Wonder is active, generating questions; entrancement generates nothing, holds everything, and calls the holding itself the point.
In the work
The eye is not released. Detail accumulates at the centre past the point where a reading can be finished, so the gaze keeps going back to it.
Entrancement 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
- St
- Pc
- Cg
Answers Found In Silence
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Sg2
- Dt
- Ig
- Hs
- Ws
Lord Knows
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Cg2
- Rn
- Pr
- Dt
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Mercy Stallion
3 works composed with Entrancement
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$340SOLD- Su2
- En
- Dz
- Dr
- Ab
False Awakening
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APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
$307SOLD- Su2
- Cm
- En
#0001 | FREAKY BOP
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SCARCE, 15 editions. Open the tier key.
$123SOLD- En2
- Lv
- Lo
- Sa
Deep Dive
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
- Su Sublimity 2 works
- Ab Abject 1 work
- Cm Calm 1 work
- Dr Dread 1 work
- Dz Detachment 1 work
- Lo Longing 1 work
The rest of the Liminal family
Where Entrancement sits En · LIMINAL FAMILY
OPEN THE TABLELIMINAL FAMILY75 NAMED · 5 UNDISCOVEREDTAP ANY CELL TO OPEN ITS PAGE





