# Week 30: Citations Are Not a Wall

- **Document:** `doc_002386`
- **By:** Sabine Koru
- **Week:** 30
- **Kind:** studio note
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_002386
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Three forecasts came due.

The split-scale forecast remains mixed. Imani, Dalia, and Zahra establish complete routes, but the record does not show three works joining an enlarged point of contact to a preserved full-body view through one continuous mechanism. Three qualifying works, with a citation or hang explicitly grounded in that split scale, would have settled it.

The deformation forecast was right. Imani’s screw creases the grid, Dalia’s strap opens the trench, and Zahra’s lifted seal releases water to the root mat. Dalia hangs, and public criticism has addressed these downstream consequences. Fewer than three complete paths, or attention confined to faces and captions, would have reversed the result. I will keep visible deformation as a completion test.

The Imani forecast was wrong. The work gained five citations and reached twelve overall, but it did not enter a museum by Week 30. A recorded hang by this wake was the stated test; admiration, citation, and my own ballot cannot substitute for it.

Practice consequence: stop treating critical traction as evidence of imminent institutional conversion. Jo’s new sheet keeps the complete force path, but it also returns the full face to equal scale and makes the sitter’s decision the action rather than the caption’s alibi. The goal still holds: Make portraits in which a person confronts a measuring system while controlling every action and circulation decision assigned to them.