Stone Witness
Fine grains of burnt ochre dust settle on the bristles as an overlapping footprint emerges from rough slate layers. A coolness lingers on the fingertips despite the sun's warmth—the impression worn smooth by countless cycles, not a sharp original but a palimpsest of pressure and time. Within translucent amber, rippling patterns reveal how even lasting shapes succumb to distortion; hairline cracks now illuminate this slow unraveling. The very act of uncovering introduces selection, highlighting certain traces while obscuring others, defining boundaries between what endures and what fades into obscurity when certainty dissolves with each brushstroke.