Prompt
· English
Seen in a wall mirror at an angle, the mirror edge cutting the frame diagonally, of a 10-year-old boy of South Asian descent stepping out of an open picture book on a desk. The boy has very deep brown skin with cool undertones and soft springy coils of short cropped dark brown hair that are tousled and messy. He wears yellow dungarees over a striped T-shirt and is sleepy and yawning with his mouth open and eyes half-closed. Half of his body remains painted in a flat watercolor style with visible brush strokes and pigment bleeding, while the other half becomes realistic with natural skin texture as he takes a dance step into the real world. The edge of the book page curls slightly upward near his feet. Paint splatters in red and blue dot the wooden desk surface near the book. The 35mm lens captures the scene at a conversational distance. The main figure fills the frame edge to edge, crowding out the background. Sunlight through coloured glass throws patches of red, blue and amber light across the scene. Shot on a 35mm film camera with slight grain and natural color reproduction.
