The FileReleased with redactions · Subject declined review
Luka Thorne, seated on a stoop.
The only photograph. Supplied under protest.

Luka
Thorne

Cloth and placement  ·  FDT

He was hired to do two things: choose the blanks and place the mark. He did both in eleven weeks. He has agreed to nothing since.

He will not name the school, so the school is not named. Told the line had been named without him, he replied that this was the correct outcome.

He has seen this file. He has not approved it. He returned it with one line struck through, no note saying why, and a correction to the size of a heading.

Record12 fields · 3 withheld
Subject
Thorne, Luka. The name is the one he gave.
Role on this line
Cloth and placement. He rejected four titles for it and did not answer on the fifth.
Trained
He asked that the school not be named. The school is not named.
Based
He confirms it is a city.
Portrait
One. Taken on the day he signed, before he understood what it was for.
Specifications received
Fourteen. Eleven concern the hood. One concerns this page.
Interview
One. Eleven minutes. He asked six of the questions.
Correspondence
Nine letters. Seven are refusals. One is a thank-you. It is four words long and it is not to us.
Use of the brand name
None on record. Across nine letters he wrote the work, that, and once, your thing.
Approval of this file
Not given. He was sent it twice.
Struck by the subject
Struck by him, honored by us. We do not know what it said.
Next engagement
Not discussed. He has not said no.
The partnershipBoth lists set at the same size, at his request

Credited with

  • The blanks
  • The weights
  • The placement of the mark
  • The decision to leave the back of most things plain

Not credited with

  • The name
  • The words
  • The ground color
  • The giving
  • This file

“A hood should stand up for four seconds after you push it back. If it goes down with the hand, you have bought a shirt with a pocket on it.”

“The mark is small because it is meant to be found, not read.”

“I did not write the rest of this.”

Sent by email. He asks that it not be called a statement.