Resignation
The Unwanting
Acceptance of the unchangeable, reached by exhaustion. Resignation and equanimity arrive at the same stillness by opposite roads, and the difference is whether anything is left.
The word
Latin resignare, to unseal or give back, re plus signare: a term of office before it was a feeling. To resign was to hand back the seal, to cancel one's own signature. The emotional sense keeps the transaction: something held is formally returned, and the hand that returns it is tired.
The feeling
The reaching stops, and the first sensation is relief with a wrong taste. The shoulders drop, the arguments end, the effort of wanting is released; what settles is quieter than sadness and flatter than peace. Attention narrows to the manageable. The word that goes missing is soon, and its absence is felt as both a mercy and a cost.
Against its neighbours
Equanimity arrives at the same stillness with everything intact; resignation arrives with nothing left. Peace is completion. Resignation is termination: the project ended, never finished.
In the work
Nothing in the frame points outward. The reaching has stopped, and the palette has given up its extremes.
Resignation 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- Rn2
- Lo
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Reached Through Ruin, and the Sky Remembered
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Ln2
- Ig
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- Du
So Sick of Feeling
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INFINITE, uncapped. Open the tier key.$75- Dt2
- Wt
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Weight On My Faith
1 work composed with Resignation
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
The rest of the Temporal family
Where Resignation sits Rs · TEMPORAL FAMILY
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