The Exhibit Room // Visual Record

Pull

Book One of The Unmade Series

Everything the file could not keep in words. Collected, not invented.

Case No. 731-19-A

16 of 18 plates released

Key artThe Pull · The Hold
Seconds and Forever — key art for The Unmade Series

Seconds and Forever

The two halves of what the war does to a person — the instant it reaches in, and the years it will not let go.

Out of the Mud — key art for The Unmade Series

Out of the Mud

One walks out through the ruin; someone else is still waiting in the light for a door that may never open.

Visual recordA walk through the file

Concept art from the world of Pull — the people, the broken country, and the small things that refuse to die in it. The two pieces above carry the series.

The Carrier

One body, and everything it was made to carry.

The Carrier — Character study, from Pull

The Carrier

Character study

One body, and the crowd of the dead it carries.

The Pull — Scene, from Pull

The Pull

Scene

A borrowed skill rises to the surface, and for a moment his hands are not only his own.

The Map — Scene, from Pull

The Map

Scene

He reads a battlefield the way other men read a page.

The Broken Country

A world coming apart along seams no one can close.

The Line — Location, from Pull

The Line

Location

The ground the war is measured in, one yard at a time.

The Seam — The world, from Pull

The Seam

The world

Where two versions of the same place refuse to agree.

The Column — Scene, from Pull

The Column

Scene

An army on the move, and the road moving under it.

The Crossing — The world, from Pull

The Crossing

The world

Some bridges are only half in the world you left.

The Market — Scene, from Pull

The Market

Scene

An ordinary street, the second the world stops holding still.

The Cathedral — The world, from Pull

The Cathedral

The world

Even the old sanctuaries have come unstuck from their own stone.

The Works — The world, from Pull

The Works

The world

The engines of the war, caught mid-unmaking.

The Walls — Location, from Pull

The Walls

Location

A city that keeps its lamps lit and its flowers alive out of pure defiance.

The Ramparts — Location, from Pull

The Ramparts

Location

The one beautiful thing on the wall that nobody thought to kill.

What Still Grows

The small, stubborn things the war could not kill.

The Windowbox — Still life, from Pull

The Windowbox

Still life

Six impossible flowers in a place built out of gray.

The Bloom — The world, from Pull

The Bloom

The world

Something new insists on growing in the cracks the war left behind.

The Kitchen — Memory, from Pull

The Kitchen

Memory

A warm light from somewhere else, and everything worth walking back toward.

The Toll

What it costs to be the weapon that works.

The Resonance — The toll, from Pull

The Resonance

The toll

Three signatures that should not be there, and will not go quiet.

General Sonn

Character study

He has another word for what you are.

The Cull

Scene

The cost does not arrive slowly. It arrives all at once.

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