Numbness
Ground-State
Complete deactivation. Emotion absent through overwhelm. Peace arrives at the same quiet from the other direction. Numbness is what remains when the system has been asked for more than it has.
The word
Numb is the old past participle of the Middle English nimen, to take or seize: a numb hand was a taken hand. The silent b is a later addition with no history behind it. The etymology still describes the mechanism, since numbness is not a feeling so much as a confiscation.
The feeling
Nothing hurts, which is the symptom. Events that should register arrive as information: the news is understood, filed, and not felt. The body goes distant, hands doing tasks a long way off, food without much taste. Time moves at the correct speed and leaves no impression, days closing behind you without residue.
Against its neighbours
Detachment is the same distance chosen; numbness is imposed, the system deciding for you. Calm can look identical from across a room, but calm still registers everything. Numbness registers nothing, which is what it is for.
In the work
A piece with its range collapsed. Contrast pulled toward the middle everywhere, so nothing in the frame can be read as important.
No work carries Numbness yet. The element is named and the table is not finished.
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- St2
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- Rn
- Su
Crowned In Ashes
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- St2
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- Wn
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- Mn
For a Moment the Waters Stood Still
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.
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