Amanda Has Not Moved
- nothing at all unusual in this
- countless x-rays
- normally so motionless
- the stench of rotten fish
- the files of the child welfare committee
Amanda has not moved in 17 hours.
There is nothing at all unusual in this, as she is normally so motionless that birds alight on her head and moss grows on her toenails. What is a bit unusual is that the stench of rotten fish hasn’t prompted her to relocate.
The tips are good down here at Fisherman’s Wharf, but not that good. And the freak tide, with its concomitant aroma, has chased off all the tourists anyway.
Amanda’s silver body paint reflects most of the solar heat, but also inhibits perspiration. She must be uncomfortable. She faces the promenade, with Alcatraz in the background. A living photo-op.
Enduring countless x-rays as a little girl must have trained her to keep still. The reason for all those medical images is sealed away in the files of the child welfare committee.
Wow. This result is pretty impressive. Amanda is sad and mysterious… and painted silver… If a prompt caused me to generate this I’d probably explore it …
More please.
Thanks! For me, the most successful prompts have that feeling of a fully realized world; we get just this little window to peer into but there’s a sense that things extend beyond the frame.
There’s a painting I always think of in this way. It’s two Inuits, and all you can see are their weary faces and the hoods of their parkas. One of them appears to be carrying the other. No background details at all. I find it really evocative and spare. There’s obviously a whole story behind the image, one I’ll never know. I like that feeling, sometimes.