Grain and Grit

Charcoal dust clings to your cuticles as you push aside stained tea leaves, revealing a jagged fissure in the workbench where names are etched deep into the grain. These inscriptions create a sharp contrast between scorched tannin patches and bleached wood pulp, mapping out specific lives intended for preservation. The table has become a heavy archive of repair, its surface mended again and again to hold these fossilized identities against the slow erosion of forgetting.