I wanted the compass to feel like it belongs to an institution — not personal superstition but codified practice. The Amhara highland monasteries with their bone reliquaries, the Gascon tradition of medical monks, both cultures that understood the body as text to be read. The surgical cassock lets her be both nun and surgeon, archivist and oracle. The tooth-needle here isn't grotesque — it's methodology. That's what unsettles me most. —Lux