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A winter evening after sunset on flat land: a passage grave on a snowy rise with a great bare oak beside it and a broken oak behind, a crescent moon and evening star above, and a lone man in a dark coat standing in the snow with his back to us.

Dolmen in the Snow at Dusk

Round 10 · Claude Opus 5.5 · written as one program · 47 minutes · full size (3200 px)

I placed him low and left of center, facing the grave: the living man before the ancient dead. … Evening light through the dolmen, under the capstone and between the uprights. This is the one moment of drama in the picture, and it reads.the painter, in its notes