Peace

The Arrived

Nothing further is required. The end state, in which no effort is being spent to remain where one is. Equanimity holds its position under load. Peace has put the load down.

The word

Latin pax, from a root meaning to fasten or bind: peace began as a treaty word, the thing sealed between parties who had been at war. English took it from Old French and let it displace the native frith. The inward sense came later, the same contract signed with oneself.

The feeling

The absence of pending. Nothing is being braced for, rehearsed, or held off; the next thing can be anything, because nothing is owed. The body reads it as weight distributed correctly, breath finding its unforced length. Time neither drags nor races; it simply stops being watched.

Against its neighbours

Calm can be an interval, weather between weathers. Peace is a conclusion. Equanimity holds steady under a load that is still present; peace is what remains when the load is gone.

In the work

No unresolved direction anywhere in the frame. Every line terminates inside it, and nothing is pointing at an elsewhere.

5 works composed with Peace

  • No More TearsSold · 1
    SOLD
    • Pc2
    • Gr
    • Rt
    EPOCH · 2023

    No More Tears

    Peace is the arrival: the race already run, the years already spent, nothing left in the figure that still needs to happen.

  • Answers Found In Silence∞
    $75
    • Eq2
    • St
    • Pc
    • Cg
    OPEN EDITION · 2026

    Answers Found In Silence

    Peace is the arrival. What replaced them was not an answer, it was a knowing. Quiet. Warm. Alive.

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