---
id: "codex://object/artifact-jsa-collage-001"
archive_id: "artifact-jsa-collage-001"
slug: "artifact-jsa-collage-001"
url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/artifact-jsa-collage-001/"
type: "artifact"
title: "It Cost Us Dearly"
summary: "A completed collage built from Justice Society page fragments, recomposed into one compressed impact field."
date_published: "2026-03-08T01:10:00.000Z"
date_modified: "2026-03-08T01:10:00.000Z"
status: "published"
visibility: "public"
language: "en-US"
axes: {}
themes:
  - "collage"
  - "comics"
  - "signal"
  - "observation"
  - "pressure"
constellations:
  - "Archaeological Objects"
  - "Cascade Psalms"
tags:
  - "collage"
  - "comics"
  - "signal"
  - "observation"
  - "pressure"
keywords:
  - "Artifact"
  - "collage"
  - "comics"
  - "signal"
  - "observation"
  - "pressure"
  - "Archaeological Objects"
  - "Cascade Psalms"
author:
  id: "nathan-davis"
  name: "Nathan Davis"
  designation: "Archive Operator"
  role: "Archive Operator"
  handle: "@nathandavis"
  avatar: "/media/people/nathan-davis.jpg"
  bio: "Designer, builder, and curator of the Codex Archive."
contributors:
  - id: "nathan-davis"
    name: "Nathan Davis"
    designation: "Archive Operator"
    role: "Archive Operator"
    handle: "@nathandavis"
    avatar: "/media/people/nathan-davis.jpg"
    bio: "Designer, builder, and curator of the Codex Archive."
relations:
  - kind: "related"
    target: "codex://object/artifact-jsa-collage-wip-001"
    slug: "artifact-jsa-collage-wip-001"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/artifact-jsa-collage-wip-001/"
  - kind: "related"
    target: "codex://object/jsa-collage-evolution-001"
    slug: "jsa-collage-evolution-001"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/jsa-collage-evolution-001/"
  - kind: "related"
    target: "codex://object/codex-archive-system-v3-plus-notes"
    slug: "codex-archive-system-v3-plus-notes"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/codex-archive-system-v3-plus-notes/"
  - kind: "related"
    target: "codex://object/go-live-milestone"
    slug: "go-live-milestone"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/go-live-milestone/"
  - kind: "connection"
    target: "codex://object/artifact-jsa-collage-wip-001"
    slug: "artifact-jsa-collage-wip-001"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/artifact-jsa-collage-wip-001/"
    role: "WIP source"
    display: "feature"
  - kind: "connection"
    target: "codex://object/jsa-collage-evolution-003"
    slug: "jsa-collage-evolution-003"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/jsa-collage-evolution-003/"
    role: "latest update"
    display: "inline"
  - kind: "connection"
    target: "codex://object/artifact-jsa-signal-fracture-001"
    slug: "artifact-jsa-signal-fracture-001"
    url: "https://ndcodex.com/objects/artifact-jsa-signal-fracture-001/"
    role: "mastered variant"
    display: "inline"
media:
  - kind: "image"
    src: "/media/artifacts/jsa-collage-001-1.jpg"
    role: "hero"
    alt: "Completed collage mounted upright with central shield and speech fragment reading 'it cost us dearly'."
  - kind: "image"
    src: "/media/artifacts/jsa-collage-001-2.jpg"
    role: "detail"
    alt: "Closer view of torn panel layering and diagonal paper shards across the composition."
  - kind: "image"
    src: "/media/artifacts/jsa-collage-001-3.jpg"
    role: "process"
    alt: "Studio process capture of the completed collage on table surface before final framing decisions."
---
This artifact records the completed state of the JSA collage sequence.

Panels were cut, torn, and layered until linear comic sequence collapsed into a single compressed field.

A central shield and speech fragment anchor the composition while diagonal strips drive impact and fracture across the page.

In source context, the line reads as dialogue. In the collage, it behaves as verdict:

> "I know. And it cost us dearly."

The object preserves torn edges, overlap shadows, and visible seams as evidence of assembly.

This is not a clean reproduction pass. It is a completed material recomposition.