Prompt
· English
Worm's-eye view from floor level of a 24-year-old woman alone, the lens a few centimetres above the ground and tilted up to capture the side of her head and ear where the hair is constructed from intricate brass gears and springs, still turning slowly. The woman is giggling behind one hand, her eyes creased with joy, revealing deep blue eyes and sharply angled eyebrows above a long narrow face of North African descent with medium olive-brown skin and a thin silver nose ring. Her human hair is densely packed tight coils, chin-length and dyed deep teal, tied in a low ponytail, while the mechanical brass structures extend from the scalp with visible oil stains on the mechanisms, a tiny screw slipping out of the jaw area, and steam puffing from a valve behind the ear. A large-format view camera on a tripod keeps everything sharp with perfectly straight lines. Two unrelated things are placed next to each other so they comment on each other: the organic teal hair and the industrial brass gears. The only light in the room is a bluish glow from a phone or laptop screen, casting a cool hue on the brass and the skin. Shot on a large format film camera, the image exhibits extreme sharpness, linear perspective distortion from the low angle, and a monochromatic blue color cast.
