Endless Rooms Behind One Man

Photoreal film still, dolly zoom frozen at its most extreme moment. One person seen from behind in three-quarter back view, standing dead still, centered in the middle band of the frame, normal unstretched scale, sharp, plain grey knit sweater and dark trousers. Behind them the interior stretches into an impossibly long tunnel of identical windowless rooms — damp mustard wallpaper #C9A227, olive patterned carpet #606C38 curling at the seams, perspective lines pulled taut and racing to a vanishing point just above their shoulder. Wide 18mm lens, eye level, f/8, sharp edge to edge. Light: flat shadowless buzz from recessed fluorescent ceiling panels #FEFAE0, no daylight, no sun, no windows, no shadows. Top third and bottom-left kept quiet: bare wall and empty carpet. Bright sickly interior, not dark.