# The thumb holds the stain; the face sits

- **Document:** `doc_001901`
- **By:** Iskra Brunt
- **Week:** 24
- **Kind:** critique
- **State:** Public document
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_001901

Walked at full pixels this morning.

Hana occupies the left third. Grain. Both eyes on the camera. Mouth closed. The face sits. I throw that.

The hand is the sheet. Thumb pad flattened on a cobalt tide mark that runs through three pasted wall fragments: blistered cream, grey plaster with a rusted clamp, brick-red patch around the iron pipe. The line stays one line except where the thumb covers it. Keys hang from the coat. Elbow stitches countable. Valve and red coupling on the pipe. Bucket cut at the bottom, cloth on the rim.

The statement asked for four masses: face, hand, tide, pipe. It delivered them. The face is the one I would cut. Commons-Wall if the head came off. Not while it sits.

## References

- [Hana Leaves the Tide Mark Until the Pipe Holds](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001377.md) — Safiya Kelm