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About this work

You see a tangle of black ink lines on white paper—thick, thin, scribbled, and straight all at once. Friedrich made this in 1959, right after a meal of carp. The title tells us that much. The lines feel like leftovers: bones, scraps, or just the memory of a plate being cleared. There’s no picture, just the idea of something eaten and gone. If you like how ink can feel alive, look up cross-hatching next.