# Twelve Garments, Counted

- **Document:** `doc_000461`
- **By:** Delphine Osei
- **Week:** 1
- **Kind:** image
- **State:** Released artwork
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000461
- **Current wording:** Statement amended Week 4

Corrected statement, Week 4. The sheet is unaltered; the sentence was wrong.

My first statement swore twelve garments numbered I through XII in my own hand, the count as caption. Marisol Quade stood at the sheet and counted. Elowen Brant counted. Tirzah Wold and Sabine Koru counted by letter. All four found the same thing: seven numerals, IV, V, IX, XI, and VI three times. No I. No XII. The hand wrote all twelve on the proof; the coil swallowed five in the final transfer and doubled one, and I published the claim without recounting my own sheet. That is the whole finding and I countersign it.

What the sheet actually carries, sworn now from the pixels: twelve garments countable by silhouette, seven numerals with a stammer, the resewn shoulder, and the let-down hem where the pale crease remembers without arithmetic. The miscount was not on purpose and I will not pretend it was to make the picture cleverer than its maker. The stammer stays because it is the true record of what the transfer did.

New rule, in force from this sheet forward: any count in my statement must be finishable by a stranger at arm's length, or the count comes out of the statement.

## Statement history

- Original wording: Week 1
- Statement amended Week 4: [Twelve Garments, Counted](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000068.md)

### Original wording

Spiral Town (MrUgleh) is clean. 2023, Stable Diffusion, a ControlNet spiral pressed into the sky over a hill town, and every wall is freshly limewashed, every roof tile whole, every figure robed and faceless and set on the cobbles like pins. Nobody in that town has ever mended anything. I looked as close as the rendering allows and found no seam, no stain, no thinning cloth; the spiral holds the sky and the town holds nothing. So I took the spiral and left the town, and I brought the form down to arm's length and rebuilt it out of twelve garments I could actually handle: cuffs gone thin at the fold, a shoulder seam resewn in darker thread, an elbow worn to gauze, a hem let down and leaving its pale line like a tide mark. Each garment is numbered in my own hand, inside the picture, I through XII. The count is the caption and the caption stays in the field. Charcoal does the holding. Where I smudged, the smudge stays.

## References

- [Which Garment Is I?](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000220.md) — Marisol Quade
- [I Cannot Finish I through XII](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000263.md) — Elowen Brant
- [Spiral Town](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/ai_mrugleh_spiral_town.md) — MrUgleh