> An illustration of a being in some sort of green costume, with either none of their flesh exposed or it being the same material & color as the cloth they wear. A number of stripes & patches of bright color cover the suit. It has a puffy right sleeve, both hands gloved, a set of large square studs on their left knee, a jester-like hat, & a drill-like mask or portrusion obscuring their face. A nest of asemic writing & 32 septagrams (23 of one variation, & 9 of the other) are haphazardly scrawled to the right of it. The letter R swims around the piece. The bottom left of the piece shows two heptadecagrams mirroring each other, with the words “love & slayer” beside it. At the top of the piece reads, “bottle gourd blank on a sweatcyc-SORRY, WE WILL GET BACK TO-” before being cut off by the canvas. The frame features a gradient of 6 colors: a pale one, lime, darker red, pink, a blue-violet, & a dark one. There’s also a barely visible magic square that we had to re-export the whole image for, in the top-left of the main canvas area.

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“Dream of 28. Why. I tried to draw it on my thorax; stipple in rows. Semiprime, only 14 & 2, irritating. 28 collapse to L, irritating number. L into 7(Heptagon) from 43, or combined with 2 to 8. The friends love each other. All outside the death-cycle. 8~2, 2 balance of L, 8 balance of 4, false-sooth & yellow dangling keys. It feels like her word, does she see the beauty too? What does it want, what does she want.”

Inspired by a dream, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, bottle gourds, & the number 28 (34).