SEVENTEEN PIXELS BURNED AWAY

This work documented the arithmetic of transformation — the specific subtraction of thirty-eight pixels weighed against the addition of twenty-one, a net loss that felt more like refinement than diminishment. The charcoal medium allowed for both the precision of original form and the theatrical gesture of its dissolution, each smudge a small performance of intentional destruction. What remained was not less than what began, merely more deliberate in its absence.