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@@ -149,6 +149,23 @@ emblem has content close to its edges and an adaptive icon masks about a quarter
 of the canvas away, so dropping it in unmodified would crop the shield. Fitting
 it to the safe zone is Batch 08's final-artwork work.
 
+### What the artwork has to do
+
+Two things at once, stated by the owner and recorded here because it is the brief
+every remaining art issue is judged against: **welcoming, and visibly private.**
+Not alternating between them screen by screen — a warm opening followed by a bare
+form is how onboarding reads today, and the privacy idea currently appears on
+exactly one screen out of seven.
+
+Welcoming is the harder half to get right without breaking [Tone](#tone): warmth
+here means an app that looks like it was made with care, never one that
+celebrates a period or decorates it. Private is already half-solved in the
+vocabulary — `PrivacyIllustration` encloses a ring in a shield, and enclosure
+reads as protection without reaching for a padlock, which would read as a
+security product rather than a calm one.
+
+The remaining art is tracked as issues #29 to #32, not listed here.
+
 The visual language is deliberately narrow — **overlapping circular forms** and
 nothing else. §42's forbidden list (blood drops, tampons, pads, uterus imagery,
 gender symbols, anatomy) is a product decision rather than squeamishness: this