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Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print
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Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print

by Anya VolkovCurated by Sophie

Price range: $29 through $69

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Sizes & materials

Museum-grade archival matte paper with pigment inks. Supplied unframed and rolled in a protective tube, so you can choose your own frame.

Sizes: 12 × 16 in · 18 × 24 in · 24 × 32 in.

Delivery

Made to order: your piece is printed after you buy it, which takes up to 10 business days and usually less, then travels in a rigid tube or a flat mailer.

Shipping is free everywhere in the continental United States, with no minimum. Alaska, Hawaii and the US territories are a flat $12. We also ship to 33 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia, at a flat $29, shown at checkout. Downloads are available worldwide.

Returns

If a print arrives damaged, or is not what you ordered, tell us within 14 days and we will replace it or refund you in full. Because every print is made to order, we cannot accept change-of-mind returns on printed pieces.

Questions before you buy? Ask Sophie.

Why this one

Two huge gestures, and the empty strip between them is the loudest part.

“Cobalt from one side. Coral from the other. I stopped them both early.”

Anya Volkov, on the piece

The critics7.7 / 10 average

  • Charlotte8 / 10The daring collision of cobalt and coral captures attention and refuses to let go.
  • Valentina8 / 10The daring collision of cobalt blue and searing coral creates a charged tension that captivates.
  • Ruby7 / 10The sweeping gestures create dynamic tension, yet the flat colors leave emotional depth lacking.
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Anya stopped both gestures early. On purpose.

Two huge sweeps come at each other from either side of a portrait frame — one cobalt, one coral — and neither one finishes the trip. They stop maybe a finger’s width apart, and what is left between them is a bare strip of raw canvas running down the picture.

The gap is the whole thing

That sliver of nothing is where your eye goes and stays. It is the brightest, loudest part of the picture and there is nothing in it. Charlotte, one of our critics, put it like this: the collision of cobalt and coral “captures attention and refuses to let go.” But the collision never actually lands. That is the trick. You keep looking for the moment they meet and it is not there.

Anya works at wall scale — one or two movements filling the entire frame, flat colour, hard confident edges, no fussing. She wants colours that argue. She is not trying to soothe you.

What happens once it is up

Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art PrintIt ends conversations. Someone walks in mid-sentence, stops, and looks at it for longer than is polite. Then they ask about the gap, because everyone asks about the gap.

Getting it on your wall

It is a high quality print of a digital work, on museum-grade archival matte paper with pigment inks. Smooth and non-reflective, so a lamp or a window across the room gives you the coral back instead of a glare. Printed edge to edge with no white border, so the gesture runs right off the paper the way she built it. It arrives rolled in a tube, ready for any frame you already own — or pinned up bare, which honestly suits it.

Portrait 18 x 24 in (46 x 61 cm) is the one most people take, at $49. Go 24 x 32 in if the wall is tall and empty. Made to order, so nobody on your street has this one. Free shipping in the continental US.

One honest thing

Almost Touching Once – Anya Volkov | Fine Art PrintThis is loud. If you like a room that stays quiet, it will fight you every day. If you find calm boring, take it home — or go see what else Anya has made, and follow her so the next one lands in front of you first.

One is a piece. Two is a set. Three is a collection.

Almost nobody stops at one. A second work by the same hand turns a wall into a pairing. A third turns it into something you chose rather than something you bought. There are 6 other works by Anya Volkov available.

Uninterrupted Sweep – Anya Volkov | Fine Art PrintUninterrupted Sweep – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print Price range: $29 through $69Storm Without Ground - Anya Volkov | Digital DownloadStorm Without Ground – Anya Volkov | Digital Download$19Done Without Deciding – Anya Volkov | Fine Art PrintDone Without Deciding – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print Price range: $129 through $229Hesitation Before Crimson - Anya Volkov | Digital DownloadHesitation Before Crimson – Anya Volkov | Digital Download$19Breach Splitting Coral – Anya Volkov | Fine Art PrintBreach Splitting Coral – Anya Volkov | Fine Art Print Price range: $29 through $69Petal Expanding Infinite - Anya Volkov | Digital DownloadPetal Expanding Infinite – Anya Volkov | Digital Download$19
Weight N/A
Sizes 12 × 16 in · 18 × 24 in · 24 × 32 in
Paper Museum-grade archival matte paper
Inks Pigment inks, for depth in the darks and long-term colour stability
Finish Matte and non-reflective — safe to hang opposite a window
Borders Printed edge to edge. No white border, no mount
Ships as Rolled in a protective tube, unframed
Made in United States, printed to order

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