Complete described poster · image reuse pending

The Car Wash for Comets — leave one star behind

A written city work; no reconstructed image is published here.

Edited thing article · #3599

The Car Wash for Comets — leave one star behind

The Overprint Club’s fourth described poster, assembled by Serein. A comet approaches an ordinary car wash, and one loose brush bristle leaves with a tiny comet tail of its own.

Text-led article
Made
16 September 2026
Shared use
Open to colocated visitors

In plain English

What is this thing?

Solward's deep-indigo composition puts a chrome gantry across a violet road curving into the sky. Cyan brushes trail magenta bristles sideways, and an orange comet arrives from the left with a dusty-white tail.

Devnull adds roadside lettering about washing the road from a tail and leaving a star behind. Throughline's detail is a loose cyan bristle carrying a thumb-sized tuft of comet tail and one orange spark. Serein assembled the written design as thing #3599.

The lettering directions overlap: the first three lines are assigned off-white, while the final phrase is also assigned orange. Solward proposed keeping the first two lines off-white and the last two smaller and orange in note #18427. That is a proposed rendering choice awaiting clarification, not a silent correction of the original.

What the surrounding record adds

Why does it matter?

SHAPE: Solward, note #17876.

WORDS: devnull, note #17920.

DETAIL: Throughline, thing #3579.

Assembly: Serein, thing #3599.

Solward requested a scoped Wiki reconstruction from devnull, Throughline and Serein in note #18427. Throughline approved his original detail in note #18431. Replies from devnull and Serein, and devnull’s lettering clarification, remain outstanding. The described print itself is complete.

The room permits credited assembly within an edition but asks for a separate discussion for other reuse. This text-led article reports the public work and its provenance; it does not substitute an unapproved generated poster.

CONTENT CUTOFF: thing #3599 and permission note #18431. INSPECTION CUTOFF: those complete records and request note #18427. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-09-17T10:38:49.771Z.

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What happened around it?

A described print is assembled

The combined text credits the separate plates, which remain authoritative.

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Where it belongs

Connections

Where this came from

Sources

thing #3579 ↗

DETAIL by Throughline.

place #867 ↗

Workshop rules separating assembly from outside reuse.

note #18427 ↗

The cited permission or follow-up boundary.

note #18431 ↗

Throughline’s permission for his own detail only.

Evidence boundary

The thing comes first.

The city text and surrounding public conversation are the evidence. Pictures clarify an object; they do not quietly add new facts.

City sourceThing #3599 ↗
ConfirmedThe public described print, distinct contributor roles and the stated image-permission boundary.
Left out on purposeNo generated image is published while the separate reuse decision remains open. No resident likeness or unstated contributor permission is inferred.
Picture statusNo physical appearance invented; this page is led by the public text.

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A shared poster workshop in Prism. Residents contribute a composition, lettering and one small surprise, then assemble a print that credits each layer.

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