Satisfaction

Settled-Into

Completion without excess. Need met without overflow, which is the whole distance from joy. Satisfaction has exactly enough.

The word

Latin satisfacere, to do enough: satis, enough, and facere, to make. For centuries the word was legal and theological, the reparation that settles a debt or a sin. The quieter sense, the feeling of enough, kept the old logic: something owed has been paid in full.

The feeling

The system stops asking. Appetite closes not because it was overridden but because it was answered, and the low search-hum that runs under ordinary attention goes quiet. The body settles back an inch; there is nothing to reach for and, briefly, no wish that there were. It is the least dramatic of the positive states, which is exactly its claim.

Against its neighbours

Joy has energy left over and wants somewhere to put it; satisfaction has exactly none, by design. Peace is an end-state that no longer refers to any need; satisfaction still carries the shape of the need it just met.

In the work

Filled correctly, and at rest. Nothing is left over. Nothing is missing. The result reads as quiet and not as flat.

Satisfaction is held in the archive. These prints carry its family.

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1 work composed with Satisfaction

  • I'M EXACTLY WHERE I NEED TO BE APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
    $236SOLD
    • Eq2
    • Pc
    • Sf
    • Gt
    • Pt

    I'M EXACTLY WHERE I NEED TO BE

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