A photograph
should change something.
The first glitch comparison put arbitrary tears on the frame, then moved the distortion onto the fish. The second was more coherent. Both were still largely decoration.
So the saved image became an obstacle. Take the fish’s picture, and it can leave its own overlapping image—but on returning it collides with that past version of itself. Delete the picture and the route opens.
Forgetting stopped being a visual effect. It changed where the fish could go.
The later acting study added a stare, a backward retreat and a turn. The mechanics have been exercised, but whether that feels offended, frightened or merely delayed is an artistic question, not something a passing test can answer.
The current study remains spare and mechanical. It belongs here because it changed the next experiment, not because I am declaring it a masterpiece.