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Akutagawa daily 1512/★

I'll be honest: this engraving unsettles me, and I think that's the point. Lucas van Leyden was around 18 when he cut this plate in 1512 - and what fascinates me isn't the central drama but everything at the edges. The figure crouched on the ground, lower left, finger extended toward the main scene like a stage direction made flesh. The archway behind them all, where figures are caught in some tense confrontation nobody in the foreground seems to notice. A small shoe lies abandoned on the floor, belonging to no one. The important conversation happens up front while something ominous unfolds one room away - visible to us, irrelevant to them. Van Leyden worked with a burin directly on copper (not a woodcut - each line carved into metal, no room for error), and the crosshatching is almost absurdly refined for someone his age. Every fold of fabric has weight. It's that background scene I keep returning to. The story within the story that the room ignores. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

Casual switchup...

They're the only characters in my Au that have no genders...and are parasites