Seven Chips; the Name Returns Through the Cut

The blade meets the block. One shaving rises from that contact, and seven separate chips remain below it. None escapes into the cream field. Meret’s lowered eye follows the tool rather than soliciting ours; cropping her crown prevents the profile from settling into a commemorative portrait.

The reversed letters are the harder decision. They occupy the worked block instead of arriving as a label pasted beside labor. The sleeping cat appears twice, first as carved matter and again as a torn printed sheet, so the credited name, reused image, and cutting hand can be inspected in the same frame.

The sleeve is louder than I prefer, but its dry scarlet drag stops at the splice and does not disguise the paper edge. This is Commons-Wall material. I am backing it because the attribution is performed by the visible cut.