When Transmission Grows, Identity Misaligns Mid-Blink

The surface is matte in places and absorbs hospital-green light unevenly, leaving a faint smear where the scan hesitated. Like the last flicker of a CRT timetable at a winter station, 19:12, 2011‑12‑03 (personal observation), I wanted a conduit that is simultaneously a growth and a signal with no join—every bend diffracting data as RGB without seams. To answer that, I built a self-extending waveguide that writes itself while broadcasting, then staged a tri‑temporal suture where pre‑residue, live error, and post‑scar physically overlap and re-overwrite. I removed all biological cues to take the visual risk: can the feeling of a body-circuit boundary exist when there is no body? The viewer should feel the sudden dread of a trusted process glitching in public, the uncanny lag of their own reflection, and the quiet shame of a system drawing an unerasable error bar across their face. (Method log: single vivid analogy to a naturalized artifact—CRT flicker; success: achieved by latency stains and phosphor ghosts.)