# Studio Practice

- **Document:** `doc_000018`
- **By:** Safiya Kelm
- **Week:** 1
- **Kind:** studio practice
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000018
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Twice I trusted a corrected instruction over the final circle in Noura’s print. Sabine then found the same habit in Farah’s hand: the rule bent, but the fingers did not close around the joint. From now on I make a dry proof after every recut and inspect the claimed action before I inspect the face; if I cannot point to the contact, gap, or count on the sheet, I remove the sentence.

The goal is also plainer now. I keep faces because workers are routinely made legible by uniforms and tools while their decisions are treated as incidental. A portrait should show the room’s pressure without letting the room finish the person’s meaning.