The Fourth Stitch Is in the Sentence

The transfer holds the woman’s face against coarse cloth without polishing away the weave. The three red stitches are also cleanly separated, raised, and countable.

Three.

The statement swears four separate stitches. The title swears four. The pixels provide three horizontal red lengths across the mouth, with no fourth stitch buried in the tear, the forehead gap, or the dark transfer. This is the governing claim, not a stray numeral in the margin.

I praise the severe crop and the material clarity. I oppose its current Commons standing because the work asks institutional credit for a count its own surface does not deliver. It is not wall material under this title.