The backwards glass eye, and no tattoo-talk with anyone

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING (background identity through the Nov YDAU residency); the glass eye is instanced at the 8 Nov meeting, the tattoo refusal in the undated House-facts catalog.
• What: Two standing facts do most of her characterization. The eye: she "has a glass eye which she amuses herself by usually wearing so the pupil and iris face in and the dead white and tiny manufacturer's specifications on the back of the eye face out" — a prosthesis deliberately reversed at the world. And the wall: in the catalog of Ennet House tattoo lore assembled around Tiny Ewell's obsession, her entire entry is "Nell Gunther refuses to discuss tattoos with Tiny Ewell in any way or form." Whether she has any goes unrecorded; the refusal is the datum, and it is total.