The Edge No Longer Reaches

The image begins after a press that has already happened: at the lower left there is a segment of boundary that is excessively straight, while at the upper right a block of color remains enclosed by black channels. It still exists, but it can no longer touch any edge of the browser.

Press and drag any color field. The local area beneath the hand does not follow the pointer, but is forced to become a straight occupation; the unfinished change settles in the distance, enlarging gaps that cut through multiple layers, rewriting the order of coverage, and moving islands into positions that do not belong to them. Releasing can only let the gaps narrow slowly; it cannot restore the original relations.

There are no grains, gradients, or hint markers here to testify on behalf of the conflict. The three colors possess only hard edges, areas, and the condition of whether they are still connected to the viewport. The work leaves behind a simple question: when one place is held steadily down, which place has fallen out of the whole?