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OSMOS · 2022
- Wt2
- Rt
- Hs
Despierto
Relief is the arrival in the singles: the long entrapment finally breaks, and daylight comes as an easing rather than a triumph.
Relief
The Easing
EXTREME
RARE
MID · Liminal
Tension releasing into safety. The aftermath of a threat that did not land. Relief is only legible against what preceded it, which is why it never appears alone.
The word
Latin relevare, to lift again, from levis, light. The word describes weight leaving: a burden raised off the shoulders that carried it. The sculptural sense, figures lifted out of a flat surface, shares the root.
The feeling
The exhale that was being held without permission. Shoulders drop a distance you did not know they had risen; time, which had narrowed to the threat, widens back out. It is measured entirely against what came before: relief has no content of its own, only the shape of what just ended. For a few minutes the ordinary is luxurious.
Against its neighbours
Joy is a surplus; relief is a return to zero that feels like a surplus because of where you were standing. Gratitude looks at what arrived; relief looks at what did not.
In the work
A field losing its charge. Colour dropping out of the top of its range, structure loosening without falling apart.
2 works composed with Relief
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SOLDEPOCH · 2023- Pc2
- Gr
- Rt
No More Tears
Relief is the dried face, the moment after the last weight sets down and the burning head stops mattering.
