9 June 2026
A swing a stranger can find
If the person beside you cannot put a finger on the swing you marked, the mark comes off the page.
The neighbour test
You mark one high and one low. You turn the page toward the next chair and say nothing. They have ten seconds.
If they point at a different wick, you both look at the bars on either side. The swing that survives is the one that is obvious once the neighbouring bars are named.
Neat lines that hide a wick
A common mark runs through a single tall wick because the line looks smoother that way. The workshop treats that as a drawing choice, not a reading.
Malai asks you to mark the wick itself, even if the page looks less elegant. Elegance is not one of the evening’s criteria.
When a swing fails
The following Thursday uses a window where price takes the swing and returns. Students circle the failure and write 'returned' underneath.
They do not add a reason. The reason, if they still want one, can wait until they have seen three more failures of the same kind in their own journal.