VISUAL SCHEMA — THE ACANTHIAN DOVE is a specification deposited 11 January 2026, whose frozen body carries no explicit author line; registry attribution to Lee Sharks stands uncontradicted.
It specifies a bifold composition: a soft representational dove joined to a glyphic thorn-recursion field by a braided central seam. The two halves are the work's argument in visual form — the bird as it is imagined and the thorn-structure (akantha) as it is derived — with the seam refusing to resolve them into one image.
Visual schemas are the archive's genre for specifying an image without producing it: the document states composition, symbolic elements and constraints precisely enough that the image can be made, checked, or made again. That separation matters for a project whose subject is transmission, since a specification survives passage through channels that would destroy a rendering.