The sand artist

This request includes exactly 2 design-reference images. Each image has a restricted role. Use the stated image content only for that role. Create a new composition from the complete scene description; do not reproduce the reference viewpoint or time of day unless the scene independently specifies it.

The first supplied image shows sand artist and artwork. Desert sculptor and artwork design; transfer pale ceramic shell, dark seam, solar collector, screw, channels, two basins and routing gate. The scene text determines the gate state and whether Aren is present.

The second supplied image shows aren with repaired bag. Traveller identity and clothing; transfer face, shoulder-length dark-brown hair, rectangular dark teal-blue eyeglasses, body proportions, jacket, scarf, trousers and shoes. The image also establishes the bag design. Do not transfer the portrait pose or background.

The text specifies current object locations, visible people, lighting and camera. The image references specify identity, design and material within those instructions. Do not introduce objects or people merely because they appear in a reference.

Create exactly one high-detail 16:9 landscape photograph of the initial moment described here. Depict one instant, without an action sequence, storyboard, split screen, motion trails, labels or diagrams. Preserve a natural cinematic composition with realistic materials and physically clear object placement.

Use photorealistic observational cinema, natural exposure and tactile material detail. Use rectilinear optics, soft highlight roll-off and very fine restrained grain. Preserve the difference between cool daylight, dry late sunlight and blue-black night; warm rooms have practical amber light. Give distant scenery atmospheric depth and keep foreground objects physically solid. People are comfortably dressed and absorbed in ordinary life. Architecture is personal and spacious. Avoid glossy resort advertising, decorative science-fiction clutter, excessive lens flare, fisheye distortion, posed glamour, captions, lettering, logos and borders.

This place occupies the inward-facing surface of a completed rotating space habitat: an open bracelet 3,000,000 kilometres in diameter, with a 6,000-kilometre-wide living strip and mostly transparent, sloped retaining walls 1,000 kilometres high at its lateral edges. A natural star far outside the bracelet provides daylight. The local landscape is almost flat, with extremely slight concavity along its length. Air, weather, water and vegetation are real. There is no roof, dome, central artificial sun, supporting spoke or planet inside the bracelet. Ordinary transport infrastructure is mostly concealed. Show no sky-band unless this composition explicitly asks for one.

The desert artist is an independent machine citizen: a pale ceramic shell about 45 centimetres across, with one asymmetrical dark seam, no face, no rotors and no limbs. Its sandstone outcrop contains a dry-sand artwork: a small visible solar collector powers a lifting screw feeding polished channels, two shallow basins and one fine granular fall. A small gate can divert one stream between the basins. The machine manipulates that gate with an invisible local field; the gate moves without an invented arm or visible magic beam. Sand is dry granular material, with no liquid meniscus, glowing particles or water splash. The outcrop overlooks an immense pale salt desert.

Aren is an adult with light skin, an oval face, dark brown eyes behind slim rectangular dark teal-blue eyeglasses, a slender straight nose, defined lips and a slim build. Their dark-brown hair falls to the shoulders, parted near the centre and worn loose with a slight natural wave. Their facial features and natural proportions are specific and understated. They wear a loose blue-grey linen jacket, a narrow muted rust-red scarf, charcoal trousers and dark flat walking shoes. Their appearance is relaxed and unposed, with realistic proportions. Keep the facial proportions, shoulder-length dark-brown hair and rectangular glasses consistent across camera angles. Hair has no contrasting temple streak. Do not mirror the person or add jewellery, uniform elements or a spacesuit.

There is exactly one compact rust-coloured canvas shoulder bag, with a rounded flap, exactly one dull brass buckle and one oval cream repair patch low on its front. A plain canvas shoulder strap connects to the sides; a short top handle provides a handhold. The bag is lightly worn and carefully repaired. Its front details are physical fabric and hardware, with no logos, extra buckles, duplicate patches or ornamental distressing.

VISIBLE SUBJECTS
Show Aren and exactly one pale ceramic artist; no other people or machines.

INITIAL PHOTOGRAPH
The artist hovers beside the gate before the adjustment; sand currently enters one basin and the adjacent basin receives no stream. Aren watches in partial profile with the bag at the hip. The pale desert recedes behind the outcrop in late sunlight.

COMPOSITION
50 mm-equivalent human-height three-quarter view, showing both basins, artist and Aren. Late sunlight.

No subsequent action is depicted. Render no text.