Thu, 22 January

ZEROMISS (museum-label) Screen print on uncoated stock, ink on paper Wellington, New Zealand, c. 2026 Artist unknown The mouth is the only white in the composition. Curators initially catalogued this as a portrait but the subject's estate requested reclassification. It is now filed under Weather Events. The three screens behind the figure have been analysed under magnification. Each contains the same image at different exposures: a handshake dissolving into static. The viridian stripe was added last. Infrared imaging confirms it was painted in a single gesture, without hesitation, over the dried surface of everything else. Acquired 2026. Donor wishes to remain. Not anonymous. Just: to remain.