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A ploughed field with crows and a heap of field stones rises to a low crest, and beyond it the towers of a small Baltic town stand in morning mist, with a cart track winding up toward them.

Ploughed field before Greifswald, October morning

Round 14 · Claude Opus 5.5 · written as one program · 63 minutes · full size (2400 px)

The eye runs up the furrows and the track to the town. The town silhouette (spire, bulbed tower, squat tower, naves) is the one firm, found shape in the picture. Its foot dissolves into mist laid wet over it, which is where I wanted the picture's tension.the painter, in its notes