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.

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1 work composed with Resignation

  • PHANTOM OPP FALSETTO APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
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