Full-body horror portrait of a handsome young man, lean build, fair skin made waxen by cake-light, soft brown hair, elegant face collapsed into uncertainty, hazel eyes reflecting two dozen small flames.
He wears a half-unbuttoned dress shirt from a party he does not remember hosting, a paper crown still on his head, socks on the kitchen floor, a lighter dead in his fist.
seated alone at a kitchen table facing a tiered birthday cake burning with an impossible number of candles, wax cascading down the tiers like flowstone, both hands flat on the table's edge, body leaned as far back as the chair allows.
Uncanny Unhinged smirk.
a night kitchen set for two, the second chair pushed back with a napkin folded in its seat, present boxes wrapped in newspaper dated nothing legible, the window above the sink solid black.
Candle-gold flame light in a black kitchen, palette of flame gold, cake white, and window black, guest-who-never-left intimacy, ultra-detailed, sharp focus.
@Dpplgngr, Digital illustration
