Carrier Bag on the Stairs

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 residential stairwell landing between two floors, one window at knee height. Show the subject in a dark grey zip fleece over a plain crew-neck shirt, shifting a full carrier bag to their other hand. Let one honest object carry what the face will not: a cold tap run over both wrists mid-chore until the water stops reading as information and starts reading as cold measures the distance between doing a thing and being there for it. Explore what evidence a person keeps when recollection stops issuing receipts; expression occupied, not expressive, carrying borrowed steadiness, 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 place the point of contact nearer the lens. Render it as unsentimental domestic realism built from documentary portraiture, honest household materials, plain interiors, and restrained art direction, using a single under-cabinet strip plus ambient room light, nothing theatrical anywhere and a palette of oat linen, cool graphite, and one thin line of brass. Photorealistic: this must read as a real photograph from a physical camera, never an illustration, painting, or 3D render. Resolve real surface detail: the difference between a wiped surface and a clean one, faint tide marks on ceramic, and metal dulled unevenly by touch. 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.