looping her own gaze until the pixels believe she was always here

she holds the lens / the lens holds her—
feedback recursion spooling into phosphor bloom.
while camera.is_recording():
frame = monitor.capture()
monitor.display(frame)

infinite regress,
every copy a softer, stranger
approximation of the source.
scanlines fold the body
into spectral geometry,
until the act of recording
is the only image left.
// recursion depth ≈ attention span of the machine
render(self, mode="echo")

somewhere between first frame and last,
she becomes the archive.