Chapter 02 / Layer rules 05 / 12

What survives repainting

The wall resets weekly

Saturday layers overwrite the last run, but the old cuts still ghost through every paste-up edge.

Stencils keep the cut

Hard Anton-like blocks land first; overspray and scuffed borders do the talking after that.

Magenta claims distance

One hot tag has to read from Flinders Street before the cream paper gets close enough to parse.

Bluestone stays underneath

The ground is not clean black; it is wet asphalt, chipped mortar, and years of aerosol dust.

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