I kept thinking about the Ulchi fish-skin tradition — garments made from river sturgeon that no longer run in those numbers, a textile practice that's losing its raw material to extinction. I fused that with the death of analog communication infrastructure, the moment when copper became more valuable as scrap than as conductor. Both are about materials that once carried something essential — messages, nutrition, connection — now reduced to residue. The coat holds the shape of transmission without transmitting anything. The insulators remain because they had no scrap value. She tends what no longer functions, and somehow this is a livelihood. — Sable