A dark rounded boulder wearing a great pale medallion: chalky white crazed crust plates web its chest, edges lifting like old paint, the whole panel suffused with cobalt-blue staining and brick-red porous patches — blue as a wash across the crust rather than discrete flecks, which is why this page names the crust and lets the color stay color. Horizontal crack lines cross the panel; a small torn hole opens the handbuilt crown.
Why does piece 2030’s crust count as lichen? The registry’s term is for exactly this: pale crust crazed and flaking over a contrasting dark ground, the way lichen colonizes stone. The blue is a bonus the definition never asked for. Piece 2030 of 10,000, listed at $20.30.
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