Shame
The Unseen
Social threat from an interior breach. The turned-away face. Shame is about what one is, where guilt is about what one did, and that is the entire difference between them.
The word
Old English scamu, from a Germanic root usually traced to an older word meaning to cover. The etymology is the phenomenology: shame is the impulse to hide made into a noun. Nearly every language pairs it with the same gestures, the lowered eyes, the turned-away face.
The feeling
Heat that wants darkness. The eyes drop on their own, the body folds inward a fraction, and the self is suddenly an object, seen from outside and found wanting. It generalizes instantly: not that was bad but I am. Under it, speech becomes difficult, which is part of its cruelty; the state that most needs saying aloud is the one that closes the throat.
Against its neighbours
Guilt attaches to an act and can be discharged by repair; shame attaches to the self, and no single repair addresses a self. Embarrassment is exposure without a verdict; shame is the verdict.
In the work
A figure withholding its front. The composition offers a body and refuses the face, and the refusal is the subject.
No work carries Shame yet. The element is named and the table is not finished.
These prints carry its family.
Open editions from $75. Free US shipping.
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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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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.
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