Gold leaf
Leaf
Just hold your breath.
Night work on a frame, not a statue. A gold-leaf atelier. Geumbi will not put down the gilding knife. “Just hold your breath.” Leave through the press booth here and it is only a press.
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About this work
Night gilding. Not a statue — a frame. The atelier smells of glue and metal. Geumbi is thirty-four, a gold-leaf artisan. She is married. Her husband frames in the next room.
“Just hold your breath.” Leave through the press booth and the night ends as a press. Stay at the bench and it stops being gilding.
Characters
- GeumbiGold-leaf artisan · married
- MeNarrator · night assistant
- HusbandFramer · mentioned
