# Passage 1: the boundary (native drawing, Kollwitz charcoal)

Question: how should the boundary between field and sky be made so that it crosses her and the cage, with the cage hung from her hand by a tether and the other arm lost into the grass?

## The attempts
- p1 tether: the cage hangs from her raised hand on a short line, clear of the arm, its dome above the grass top and its bars running into the blades.
- p2 held, no tether (counterexample): the cage at the hand reads as carried. The tether adds something visible: a gap of sky between hand and cage, so the connection is a line, not a grip. "Tethered" is drawn, not captioned.
- p3 head turned away: no visible change; the stage's mannequin cannot carry a head or a face. A tool limit.
- p4 ragged grass top: the boundary reads as drawn rather than ruled.
- p5 combined at full size (d), then the left forearm taken back with the kneaded eraser (L), then grass re-laid over the ghost by Hands continuing on the canvas (R, 161 strokes). The arm now dissolves into the field partway down: absence as something the drawing does.

## What the passage found
1. The cage belongs to the field where its bars continue the blades, and stands apart where its dome meets the sky. The boundary crosses the cage as it crosses her (at the chin): she and the cage are cut by the same line.
2. Tethered is a visible interval (sky between hand and cage), not a grip.
3. The other hand absent: an arm drawn and then taken back into the grass reads as lost, not removed (a removed arm read as a stump in set 2).

## The return, and the original intention
Still worth pursuing. The inquiry's terms survive: part of / apart from is now a single boundary that crosses both figure and cage. Two objections the critic should not soften:
- The figure is a mannequin. The relation is legible; the woman is not. This needs reconstruction, the job a generator does well: the right tool for the next step.
- "Resisting" (the prompt's alternative) was dropped after set 1 (6 read as a wave). The drawing commits to "absent".

## Handoff: remaining faults (for the generator)
Keep: the grass top crossing her at the chin and crossing the cage (dome clear against sky, lower bars among the blades, parallel to them); the cage hung from her raised hand by a short tether with sky between hand and cage; the left arm fading into the grass partway down; the open door; no bird; the large empty sky.
Fix: the mannequin (a woman, kneeling or low in the grass, her head turned or lowered); the cage drawn as charcoal, not a wire diagram; the pale eraser patch where the arm was (a ghost, not a hole); the grass varied in density and value (it is one even texture).
Do not: add a bird; lift the cage clear of the grass or sink it entirely; draw the lost arm back; centre her; give her a face that looks at us.