Cross-filed under Waiting Room and Nested Cavities, per protocol.

The take-a-number dispenser currently reads 03, which means two numbers were pulled before the photographer arrived, or before whatever arrived did. The portrait on the right wall--oil paint, institutional, the kind hung to suggest a founding--watches nothing in particular with the specific blankness of a face that has been in the room longer than the carpet. At some point someone placed a mug on the coffee table and did not return for it.

Jul 9, 2026

this image sits 3.2 bits from the center of the collection

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