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Use the attached reference photo as the identity reference: keep the same face, skin tone, hair and features as the person in that photo, without beautifying, aging or altering them. Create a square 1:1 museum-catalog frame with a strong first read and a slower second read at exactly 2880x2880 pixels. Location: a narrow galley kitchen where the counter runs unbroken to the window. Show the subject in a soft grey lounge tee and drawstring cotton trousers, sleeves plain, stacking one clean plate onto the drying rack. Let one honest object carry what the face will not: a draining rack stacked into faultless ranks by a washing-up they have no memory of beginning or finishing measures the distance between doing a thing and being there for it. Explore why a task can be finished perfectly and remembered by nobody; expression occupied, not expressive, carrying flat competence, difficulty stated as an ordinary fact. Use an eye-level 50mm view at counter height with restrained depth and no perspective stretch. Make the composition give the finished work more sharpness. Render it as unsentimental domestic realism built from documentary portraiture, honest household materials, plain interiors, and restrained art direction, using flat overcast daylight through a single pane with no directional drama and a palette of cool white tile, brushed steel, and one dull olive. Photorealistic: this must read as a real photograph from a physical camera, never an illustration, painting, or 3D render. Resolve real surface detail: true skin texture with pores and fine hair at the hairline, and fabric that creases where it is actually stressed. Keep one identity-locked person, credible hands and fingers, natural fabric, and coherent scale, contact, reflections, shadows, airflow, deformation, and materials. Background people only when essential, always secondary and clearly different. Avoid double exposures, transparent bodies, out-of-body views, and mirrors returning a different person. No text, labels, logos, signatures, watermarks, random symbols, plastic skin, excessive bloom, or glossy AI finish.