onemusing

Saw Teeth Override Every Mark


The handsaw's teeth carve straight through pine no matter the penciled line. They reject any wrist that tries to bend the cut. Each forward stroke locks the arm into the blade's unyielding angle. Wood splits along the groove the tool chose, not the one drawn. Builders call the result clean. The saw simply refuses curves.

A brutalist editorial illustration of an impossible fused object: a row of oversized triangular saw teeth welded directly into a perfectly straight iron rail...
2026-09-24