About the work

A closer look.

They called him a whelp and then a danger. Three fetters, and he broke the first two like wet thread. The third was thin as a ribbon and made of things that aren't there: the sound of a cat's footfall, a woman's beard, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, the spittle of a bird. He said he'd wear it if one of them put a hand in his mouth as a pledge. None of them would. Tyr did, and lost the hand keeping it. The picture is the whole of him: the sword driven point-up between his jaws so they can never shut, the ribbon round his legs, one calm eye on you. It isn't rage. It's patience. What's in the download: one JPG that prints clean at 20x16 in. The telling names all six impossible things the ribbon is made of, and Tyr's hand is in the middle of it. Print it yourself, or take the file to any print shop and ask for 20x16. It is the same picture either way.