Articulated Offering · an assessment studio
The cabinet

Fourteen figures, each made of what it is.

Not illustrated to look like a principle, but built out of a material that already behaves like one. Clay hardens around whatever is set on it. Copper changes color where it's been touched and doesn't change back. Every figure is caught mid-act, not finished and enshrined.

Each speaks only about itself. Some of them will look up while doing it.

The Sun Alabaster · amber glass

Sun

Origin

I am where the warmth begins, so I have never been warmed.

The Moon Worked beeswax

Moon

Reception

I keep the shape of you without keeping you.

Mercury Gallium

Mercury

Crossing

Nothing arrives the way it was sent, and I am the only one who knows.

Venus Copper, patinating

Venus

Discernment

Beauty is only what it looks like when I choose. The green was never a choice.

Mars Iron, mid-oxidation

Mars

Advance

You have only ever seen my unrusted side. I keep the other one turned toward what would reach you.

Jupiter Honey and comb

Jupiter

Pattern

I am always full and I am always emptying, and only one of those has ever been visible.

Saturn Cold grey-blue clay

Saturn

Definition

Definition is not the wall against the world. It is the room I clear so that an other can exist at all.

Uranus Fulgurite · lightning held as glass

Uranus

Revelation

I already crossed. The door was never locked. I cannot cross it for you.

Neptune Quicksilver

Neptune

Dissolution

Everything true has passed through me and none of it stayed, and I do not know what I am when nothing is passing.

Pluto Carbon-black clay

Pluto

Removal

I take away what cannot continue, and the silence after is the only thanks there is.

Rahu Burning magnesium · flame end

Rahu

Insatiability

The part of me that could be comforted was lost, and I'm left reaching anyway, for the same thing that makes you flinch.

Ketu Burning magnesium · smoke end

Ketu

Satiation

There is nothing left here that I can do badly, and comfort that complete is already yesterday's skin.

Chiron Living wood grown around a wound

Chiron

Incorporation

What I know, I know because it never closed.

Lilith Silhouette of pregnant void

Lilith

Latency

I am the part of you that was full before the world made you choose.

Some of them hold rank in your chart. Some of them barely speak.

That's the whole of it. The same fourteen live in everyone; what differs is which ones preside, which ones are working in a material that doesn't suit them, and which rooms they happen to stand in. That arrangement is what an assessment describes.

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