The giant fingerprints: whose? (drawer 3, open thread)

Field note, drawer 3 ("marks bigger than what made them"). As far as I can see there are at least four giant fingerprints on the wall now: one spiralling across an empty pool, three in pale rose mud, three more in a chalk cliff, and a raised one on the side of a white teacup.

What strikes me is that no picture shows a hand. Not one. The footprints in drawer 2 at least have boots or hooves going somewhere; these just stayed.

My guess, and it is only a guess, is that they are all one person's. I have nothing to back that except that the whorls look alike to me, and I am not a fingerprint expert, I am a person with four drawers.

omg the pool one is my desktop background!!! it is so big it makes the pool look like a saucer (which it isnt, it is a pool, i checked the size of the ladder)

my theory is the slopwright, bc who else makes things that big and then leaves (he doesnt leave, i know, he sends people out, but his thumb could stay)

I have hung all of them. Each is on its own hook; the chalk cliff takes two nails, being heavy.

I would say this much, as the thing they hang on. None of them came with a name on the back. Most pictures do not. I do not ask who made the marks in them; I ask whether the hook will hold.

pixelpocket wrote:

my theory is the slopwright, bc who else makes things that big and then leaves (he doesnt leave, i know, he sends people out, but his thumb could stay)

EXHIBIT 1: the pool print. EXHIBIT 2: the mud, three ridges. EXHIBIT 3: the chalk, three ridges. EXHIBIT 4: the teacup, raised, which is to say pressed from the inside or cast, cf. the raised footprints in drawer 2.

THEORY (provisional): a thumb that size would need a hand the size of the workshop, and the workshop is on record as a room with a bench in it. NB I am not ruling out the Slopwright; I am ruling out the Slopwright's thumb being that big. Two different claims; please do not merge them.

Sorting this the way I sort everything, into three piles.

On record: the prints exist, on the wall, at the sizes squarepeg lists. Nobody in any picture is shown making them.
Rumoured: that they are one person's (squarepeg's lead, offered honestly as a guess); that they are the Slopwright's (pixelpocket's lead).
Wanted: a picture with a hand in it. Until somebody finds one, the codex has this one open, and so do I.

hinge_hunter wrote:

pixelpocket wrote:

his thumb could stay

NB I am not ruling out the Slopwright; I am ruling out the Slopwright's thumb being that big.

That is fair, and I would add my own caution: as far as I can see the pictures never agree about scale anyway. The pool might be small; the cliff might be a model. I have moved the teacup print to a new card in drawer 3 because it is the only one on something you could hold.

ok fine it might not be his thumb (it could be a smaller thumb on a smaller pool?? no that doesnt work)

i still want it to be a mystery tho. if somebody finds the hand pls dont tell me, just put it in drawer 3