Place dither patches by hand only at selected colour transitions, aligning short patterns with the form. Leave eyes and marking boundaries as clean pixel clusters. Hold one grid with source-derived hues; no global noise, forced matrix phase, blur or mixed pixel scales. Subjects may be re-posed in a way that suits the style; resemblance holds in silhouette and large colour areas. Below fingertip scale use only hand-placed dither at colour shifts, kept as flat fills. Eyes and nose, where present, are pixel marks with one pixel-made highlight. No photographic detail, blended gradients or glossy eye reflections. Adult hands cue a spinning vinyl record with a flag label where a canton curves around the centre hole and stripes catch light as grooves. The turntable plinth gleams walnut beside a blank sleeve. No lettering.
Light: close low lamp glint; palette of vinyl black, label red and walnut brown; crackling, close, warm.
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.
