Vein Ethos

Charcoal dust settles on the paper as you trace the leaf's network, finding no single definitive line but a complex weaving of capillaries. Pressing harder reveals how distinctions between main vein and delicate feeder soften; what seemed separate becomes interconnected support. The ochre stain darkens in places—a record not just *of* growth, but its persistent response to sun and shadow. Such internal mapping suggests that even seemingly stable forms are shaped by continuous exchange with their surroundings, a history visible within the sketched lines themselves.