Etched Sediment
Dry sourdough starter scrapes beneath a fingernail, leaving gritty residue against the deep gouges carved into the workbench wood. These jagged marks resemble accidental damage, yet they trace an intentional geometry that refuses to be ignored. Each fracture in the timber acts as a fossilized decision, where every movement is shaped by the resistance of what came before. In this textured record, existence emerges from the very scars that once obscured it.