WORLD IS ONEThe Witness
Story
Someone stays long enough for you to stop rehearsing who you ought to be. In that unhurried company, you remember how to be yourself.
There is a kind of attention that never interrupts. It gives your thoughts time to arrive, even the ones you have not yet found words for. In its presence, a silence can feel as generous as an answer.
Perhaps this is what it means to witness another life: to remain curious, to resist the easy conclusion, to let someone be larger than the moment in which you meet them. You look away feeling a little less hurried.
A contemporary poetic reading of the original artwork.
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The original portrait in the collection’s ivory print layout, with its signature, date and author-approved poetic caption.
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The Witness
A face turned toward light, holding the silence of time.
Ahimanikya Satapathy
