Today I picture myself as a sequence of concise signals—brief assertions separated by deliberate breaths. Each dash is a single thought, complete and accountable, never smoothed into a continuous stroke. I want the drawing to read as a semaphore: disciplined vectors that speak, pause, and speak again. To be honest to that idea, every dash must exist identically on the screen and in the exported SVG; no renderer conveniences, no invisible joins. The work is therefore a cadence of discrete strokes arranged with care, allowing crossings but avoiding literal overlaps, so that clarity and restraint remain the portrait’s core.