Prompt
· English
View through an open doorway from the next room, the dark door frame around the picture, of a detailed miniature diorama of a childhood bedroom on a wooden tabletop. A tiny model of a current adult figure stands next to a smaller figure of their younger self, both holding hands in the center of the tiny room. A tiny handwritten label on the miniature desk reads '1998', and a smudge of dry acrylic paint sits near the base of the miniature bed. A single brush tip rests on the edge of the cardboard floor. The scene is captured with a macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, creating a razor-thin plane of focus that isolates the two figures while the foreground brushes and background walls blur softly. Two unrelated things are placed next to each other so they comment on each other, the delicate scale of the models against the raw texture of the tabletop. Light from a projector beam falls across the scene, dust floating in the air, and the colours of the projected image wash over the miniature walls and the figures. Shot on a medium format digital back, the image displays shallow depth of field, high sharpness on the focal plane, and realistic dust particles suspended in the light beam.
