{"product_id":"the-first-split-a-garabaggio-framed-print","title":"\"The First Split\": A Garabaggio Framed Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOil on digital canvas, 2026. Post-Consumer Baroque series.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eApril 2nd, 11:48 PM, in the laundry room beneath the building at 44 Rutherford Avenue, where one bulb hangs from a cord too long for the ceiling it was given. I had gone down for a sock. I did not retrieve the sock. The basket stood on the concrete beside the machine, empty, cream-colored, cross-hatched all over with the diamond lattice these baskets have carried since the invention of the mold. Near the bottom of the front panel one diamond had opened. A single break no wider than a fingernail, running along the shoulder of the plastic where the weight of years had finally asked more than the plastic could give. It was the first split. I need the viewer to understand that I did not find a broken basket. I found a basket in the hour it stopped being whole, which is an entirely different subject. Caravaggio's *Calling of Saint Matthew* is not a painting of a tax collector. It is a painting of the moment before a man understands he has been chosen, and the whole event is carried by one bar of light crossing a plain wall in a plain room. This room is plainer. The bulb is worse. But the light fell through the lattice and threw the diamonds onto the concrete as a second basket, a shadow-basket, larger and more perfect than the first. Snagged in the third diamond from the corner there is a child's mitten, rose-colored, knit, one of a pair that will not be reunited. It stays there through everything that follows. This is the first station of the Book of the Cracked Laundry Basket. Ten paintings. I did not know that yet. *Fissura prima, gratia prima.*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePremium black frame with white mat and acrylic glazing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGiclée printed on acid-free, gallery-grade 220 gsm paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eREACH-certified inks, sustainably sourced woodstock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShips worldwide via Printify fulfillment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Printify","offers":[{"title":"11″ x 14″ (Vertical) \/ Black Frame \/ Fine Art","offer_id":51777408696376,"sku":"33462662411947285077","price":72.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18″ x 24″ (Vertical) \/ Black Frame \/ Fine Art","offer_id":51777408729144,"sku":"14430686826675394701","price":124.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" (Vertical) \/ Black Frame \/ Fine Art","offer_id":51777408761912,"sku":"13501412868345699036","price":210.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"28\" x 40\" (Vertical) \/ Black Frame \/ Fine Art","offer_id":51777408794680,"sku":"12092028687617140283","price":250.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/3835\/files\/1897342895552156583_2048.jpg?v=1785293580","url":"https:\/\/garabaggio.myshopify.com\/products\/the-first-split-a-garabaggio-framed-print","provider":"Maison Garabaggio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}