Prompt
· English
Seen through the glass of a display case, the shelf edge and price tags at the bottom, a 19-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man sit on a cluttered kitchen floor. The woman, a friend pouring tea, is a 19-year-old of Eastern European descent with very fair porcelain skin and pink undertones, a short stocky build, a diamond-shaped face with high cheekbones, green eyes, high arched eyebrows, large loose curls in ear-length platinum-blonde hair, wearing aviator sunglasses, soft grey loungewear and wool socks. She is gasping in surprise, the eyebrows shot up and the mouth wide open, holding a cracked pot and attempting to pour tea into mismatched mugs. The man, a friend catching spill, is a 68-year-old of Western European descent with warm caramel-brown skin, a soft heavyset build, tall, a square face with a strong jaw, deep blue eyes, thin fine eyebrows, a beauty mark above the lip, thick deep waves in shoulder-length dark brown hair slicked straight back, wearing a thick white bathrobe. He is laughing so hard the eyes squeeze shut and the head tips back, leaning toward the spill. A water stain spreads under the teapot on the linoleum, a handwritten note rests on a box of loose tea leaves nearby, and a single teabag string floats in one of the mugs. The 35mm lens at a conversational distance captures the scene with the main figure small in one corner and a large empty area of plain surface around it. Flat greenish light from a ceiling fluorescent tube illuminates the scene evenly. Shot on a medium format film camera, the image shows slight glass reflections and a flat color palette.
