Assemble the subject from many small cut ceramic tesserae with visible grout, slight thickness variation and restrained ceramic highlights, simplifying detail to the physical piece scale. Big shapes only: silhouette, proportions, large color areas. Subjects may be re-posed to suit the style. Below fingertip scale use only glaze pools and tessera edges; translate every visible surface into glaze and tessera units. Eyes and nose, where present, are glaze shapes with one glaze-made highlight. Glaze, grout and tile texture visible everywhere. No photographic detail, photo lamination, crisp strands or glossy eye reflections. A ceramic tile mosaic tabletop forms a flag with glazed red and white stripes and a blue canton of white star tiles. A teapot sits on a trivet beside it while rain ticks the window. No lettering.
Light: soft rainy window light; palette of glaze red, grout grey and teapot green; patient, glossy, calm.
Square 1:1 frame, centred composition with breathing room on all sides. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults with clearly adult proportions and faces.
