Form the image from separate masses of pigmented paper pulp pressed into shallow relief, keeping fibrous edges and matte absorbent texture visible while avoiding printed outlines, like a weathered stucco and limestone Maya relief. The Maya Maize God, young and serene, rising from the earth in a tall frame: a graceful figure with an elongated head shaped like a maize ear, jade necklace and ear spools, long maize silk hair, arms lifted holding a bundle of corn, a canoe-like earth bowl beneath his feet and stalks of maize rising on both sides.
Light: a soft warm morning light falling from the upper left, pulp in ochre, sand and pale green on the lit forms with terracotta and deep olive in the recesses, jade accents in the ornaments; palette of ochre, sand, jade green, terracotta and warm cream; calm, earthy, reverent.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the figure rising through the height of the frame. A dignified, respectful depiction in an authentic Mesoamerican spirit; no readable glyphs, hieroglyphs, inscriptions, letters or logos anywhere, only plain stepped-fret and geometric borders.
