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Diffident

$400

“…and, besides, what was left to say these days when the unspeakable was out there being spoken, exhausting all sympathy? Yet, feeling it, how difficult to keep the face's curtains closed..”

— Stephen Dunn

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

Social Anxiety Disorder · 8 × 8 in