Barniz de Pasto is a lacquer made by hand, not by brush. Stipules of *Elaeagia pastoensis* are chewed and warmed until the mopa-mopa resin turns elastic, stretched into a translucent tinted film, cut with a blade, and heat-bonded onto wood. Every colour is a separate sheet.

The system inherits that logic. The page is the burnished indigo ground the caskets were built on — a warm near-black. Colour arrives as flat cut fields with a lead-white hairline around them, never as shading inside a shape. Depth comes from stacking films and from silver leaf glinting through where the resin runs thin.