Create a cinematic film still of a childhood moment. Image 1 shows a man as an adult; draw the same person as a 7-year-old boy: same light brown hair, grey-blue eyes, face shape and half-smile. Image 2 shows his mother as an older woman; draw her about 27 years younger, in her early thirties, same face. Scene: 1 September 1999, Chelyabinsk, Russia, his first day of school. The boy stands in a schoolyard in a white shirt and a dark suit a size too big, holding a huge bouquet of gladioli almost as tall as he is; his mother crouches beside him straightening his collar. Other first-graders with flowers and white bows blurred behind, a typical Soviet-built school building. Soft morning light with a coral-orange tint, deep violet shadows, 35mm film look, shallow depth of field, subtle grain. Vertical composition, no text or signs.
