Trust

Provisional Open

Guard lowered deliberately, with the reason for the guard still intact. Trust is a decision to act as though the risk has been accepted. Certainty about the other person never enters into it. The risk stays where it was.

The word

Old Norse traust, confidence, shelter; usually traced to the same ancient root as true and tree, a word for what is firm and solid. The metaphor never left: something to lean on that will hold weight. English has used it for the feeling and for the legal arrangement alike since the Middle Ages, assets placed in another's hands.

The feeling

Guard lowered on purpose, with the reasons for the guard still known. The shoulders and the voice unclench in the other person's presence; contingency planning, the background tax of every interaction, quietly stops billing. It wears certainty and is actually a decision: the risk is still there and has been accepted. Its size is only visible when it breaks.

Against its neighbours

Hope projects a good outcome without evidence; trust extends one to a specific person, with the option of being wrong made peace with in advance. Surrender yields everything at once; trust yields by degrees, and keeps the record.

In the work

An unprotected posture in an environment that has not been established as safe. The exposure is visible and the figure holds it.

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

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1 work composed with Trust

  • Ride or Die APEX, 1 edition. Open the tier key.
    $458SOLD
    • Lv2
    • Ts
    • Cg
    • Yb

    Ride or Die

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