Cardinal

• The interface is not neutral. It is where sovereignty is decided: before the first field is filled, before the first record is saved.
• The record is not a fact. It is a decision: to include, to exclude, to translate, to erase.
• Nothing here is decorative. Everything here is directional.
• What you call an interface, we call a relation. What you call data, we call a person.

Diagonal

• Before the form, the relation. Before the field, the kinship. Before the record, the person who decided what to keep.
• Persistence is not given. It is built, held, and sometimes refused.
• What the system reads as refusal, the community reads as home. Same gesture. Different world.
• Not every interface faces outward. Some hold a center.