It seems more likely that this is in fact a construction line, one of the first marks that Rembrandt made.
The first marks how resistant to dust getting it into the inner workings of the device, the second how resistant to water ingress it is.
Gilroy's bluntly satirical view of journalists compromising not just professional integrity but the law itself, in the name of finishing first, marks a juncture where things could either get more honourable or far, far worse.
Body-washing may seem a gruesome subject, but the act is one of the first marks of respect we pay to the dead, the first of the ceremonies of farewell.
"I realized that the first marks used in art-making were the universal ones made from the movement of the hand and body and that they had to be common to all human cultures," he told the critic and curator Richard Milazzo in an interview in 2006.
Funeral barrows and mounds were among the first marks made by man on the northern European landscape, and Brian Tolle, the designer of the memorial, had the inspired idea of creating an urban tumulus — in this case, a cantilevered platform of verdure supported by a concrete base.
