Prompt
· English
View from the back seat of a car towards the front, seats and headrests framing the picture, of a 59-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman in a 1990s-style living room with floral wallpaper and beige carpet. The man, of South Asian descent with warm golden-tan skin and a plus-size body, is very short and delighted and amazed with both hands flying to the cheeks; he has a long narrow face, dark brown eyes, thick straight eyebrows, freckles across the nose and cheeks, densely packed tight coils of jet-black hair shoulder-length and pulled into a high ponytail, wearing an old band T-shirt and pyjama bottoms. The woman, of Micronesian descent with deep espresso-brown skin and a lean wiry build of average height, is smiling tenderly with soft crinkled eyes; she has a square face with a strong jaw, warm brown eyes, sharply angled eyebrows, a beauty mark above the lip, soft springy coils of silver-grey hair short cropped in an undercut with the top swept over, wearing a thick white bathrobe. They are sitting on a plush sofa, holding a VCR remote and a large bowl of popcorn, with the TV screen showing a static snow pattern, waiting for the signal to come in. A rotary phone is on the side table, a cassette tape labeled 'PLAY' in marker sits nearby, and a potted fern with yellowing leaves is visible. The scene is lit by pink and cyan light spilling from a nearby neon sign, creating two unrelated things placed next to each other so they comment on each other. Shot on a macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, with a razor-thin plane of focus that blurs the background into a wash of color.
