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Luminous fantasy photograph, near-black forest, one enormous glowing form, heavy bloom, painterly brushwork, fine grain. A 23-year-old woman in a plain white dress stands barefoot in an almost entirely black night forest, facing away from the camera toward an enormous white stag standing four metres in front of her. The animal is made of light — its body glowing softly from within like paper over a lamp, its outline blooming into the dark, and its antlers branching upward into fine bright filaments that split and split again until the tips are only points of glare high in the frame, twice the height of the stag itself. Its light is the only light. It falls on her front and rims her shoulders and the loose hair down her back, throws her long shadow toward the camera across the forest floor, and picks the nearest trunks out of the blackness as pale ribs before dying completely. She has one hand slightly raised, not quite reaching. The stag's head is lowered a little, watching her, entirely still. The sky between the branches is painterly, thick dark blue-black brushwork with a few worked stars. Bloom bleeds several inches from every lit edge and fine grain sits through the dark. The palette is blue-black and cold luminous white. The composition is vertical, the woman small and low, the antler light filling the upper half of the frame. The mood is hushed and enormous, a meeting neither party is going to explain.