Transcendence

Transmission

EXTREME RARE HIGH · Rising

Passing beyond the body. Spiritual escape velocity, the point at which the self stops being the unit of measurement. Transcendence leaves; ascendance climbs.

The word

From the Latin transcendere, to climb across, from trans and scandere. Medieval philosophers used it for what lies past every category; Kant made the crossing a limit of the mind itself, and the American Transcendentalists made it a practice. The climbing is still in the word: a passing over, never a state.

The feeling

The self stops being the unit of measurement. Concerns that were structural a moment ago, name, standing, outcome, read as small and slightly absurd. The body is not lost, as in ecstasy, but left behind like a coat on a chair, retrievable. What is felt is scale: continuity with something that does not end where you do.

Against its neighbours

Ascendance climbs and remains the climber; transcendence crosses a line past which the climber stops being the point. Ecstasy removes the self all at once and without direction; transcendence leaves by a route, and can find its way back.

In the work

Vertical release. The figure dissolving upward or outward, losing edge in the direction of travel while the ground stays intact.

12 works composed with Transcendence

Ed · 85
$350
- Aw2
- Nt
- Sg
- Tm
- Sh
SERIES 001 · 2026
ARRIVAL - The Visitor

Transcendence is the direction of travel, out of time and forward, past what the body can carry.
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Ed · 85
$350
- Sg2
- Vd
- St
- Tm
- Mn
SERIES 001 · 2026
SURRENDER - The Interval of Becoming

Transcendence is the direction of travel, the self passing beyond its carried shape toward what it will be.
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Ed · 10
$350
- Ig2
- Tm
- Sg
- Pr
- Nm
SERIES 001 · 2026
IGNITION - Light Me Up

Transcendence is what the detonation buys, the body carried past what it held as the old state fails to survive.
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Sold · 1
$519
- Tm2
- Pr
- Aw
- Sg
- Nm
ETHOS · 2023
PURVEYOR OF MY OWN FATE

Transcendence is the trajectory: the approach to the source itself, moving past the limits of the ones who observe it.
Sold · 1
$372
- Pr2
- Tm
- Wn
- Hs
- Nm
ETHOS · 2023
I Can See How This Ends

Transcendence rides the current, the body carried past its own limits as the charge exceeds what flesh was built to hold.
Sold · 1
$171
- Tm2
- Aw
- Lv
- Pr
- Nm
OSMOS · 2022
Precursor

Transcendence carries the piece: a spirituality that outgrows the container of religion and keeps ascending past its walls.
Sold · 1
$299
- Pr2
- Sg
- Tm
FND · 2021
ULTRAMARINE ✧

Transcendence is what the merging reaches for, the work passing beyond the range of any single maker.
Sold · 1
$680
- Aw2
- Tm
- Wn
- Nm
TETRA · 2022
The Beginning of the Universe

Transcendence is the knotting itself, God's image passing through the seams of space and time as they are tied.
Sold · 5
SOLD
- Wn2
- Aw
- Tm
- Dv
ACCOLADE · 2023
Age of the Stars

Transcendence hums underneath it all, the pull past the body and out into the chaotic symphony itself.
∞
$75
- Tm2
- Ac
- Aw
- Rn
- Ws
OPEN EDITION · 2026
The Culmination

Transcendence leads. This is no ending, but a fracture. A change of state rather than a finish.
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∞
$75
- Tm2
- Ac
- Pr
- Sg
- Pt
OPEN EDITION · 2026
This New State

Transcendence leads. Not born of flame, but of what flame dares not consume.
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∞
$75
- Dt2
- Hs
- Tm
- Gt
- Ws
OPEN EDITION · 2026
Let the Embers Speak My Name, and Not in Vain

Transcendence is the tempering. Not to burn, but to be tempered.
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