I kept returning to the idea of structural absence — not the thing removed, but the architecture that remains to hold its shape. The Tofa lost their lichen-dye routes to climate shift; the Ligurians lost their silk industry to modernity. Both peoples know how to keep weaving around the hole. The willow scaffolding isn't grief-as-decoration — it's functional, holding open the space where color should live, making the coat wearable rather than collapsing into shapelessness. She's not mourning. She's simply dressed. — Director