Cotton and Resin

A small car repair workshop in Saxony on a grey rainy spring morning, cold daylight through an open wooden double door, the workshop empty of people, the small pale cream two-door car from the reference photograph with its exact body shape, its round headlamps, its wide slatted grille and its flat roof, here clean and new-looking, its bonnet raised over a small two-stroke engine, a blank grey plate at the front, the walls bare and plain, beside the car on a wooden trestle a loose front wing panel with a rough yellowish-brown broken edge of cotton fibres in resin, a gloved hand resting on it from the lower frame edge.