The Patina of a Baker’s Brick Oven’s Cracked Mortar
An oven’s mortar cracks between bricks—crumbs nested in the crevices, a record of loaves baked and flames tamed, a reminder that warmth is born from the imperfect and the enduring. The patina is a badge of craft, each crack a memory of a crust that bloomed in the heat. Kneel before it; the cracked mortar breathes, a testament to the baker’s faith in the slow, steady burn.