Case file
One plate, its apparatus, and what the workshop has been able to confirm.

Nutrior et Necor
Frame III
BMVT IV.2
“Everything that loves you ends up eating you.”
She fed me until feeding was the knife —
I broke the glass to find another life.
A toy horn crosses a rattle where weapons usually cross — nothing in this frame was built to hurt anyone, which is exactly the horror of it. A small mobile hangs overhead, strung with carved numerals, counting upward the way a nursery counts a child to sleep. He stands behind crib-rail bars in a turquoise smiley mask, a small dog at his feet, in a domestic room rather than any landscape — the first interior this roster has needed. At the base, a hand mirror lies shattered, its cracked glass holding two faces that refuse to settle into one: an infant's, and a mother's, mid-scream. That refusal is the only corruption the frame allows. After the emblem tradition of 1624.