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Almost Steady

$400Original canvas

“Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.”

— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of symptoms associated with PTSD. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder · 8 × 8 in

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