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A Crane Pieced From Cracked Porcelain, Floating Nowhere
No ground, no shadow — this crane's sense of weight comes entirely from the porcelain shards themselves.
✍️ The hard part isn't piecing the shards together, it's the alpha=0 step — the background has to be clean enough to leave no trace of a shadow, and any stray color gives the composite away. The cobalt-blue pattern threading through the cracks is what makes it read as real porcelain.
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A mid-flight crane assembled entirely from shattered blue-and-white porcelain shards hovers against total transparency — alpha = 0 on every side, no white fill, no color, no surface, no checkerboard, and no cast shadow beneath it. Wings, neck and body are pieced together from glazed fragments carrying indigo wave motifs over a white crackle glaze, thin dark leading lines tracing the seams between shards, with a red-glazed crown accent marking the head. Loose porcelain fragments trail off behind the tail, scattering into the empty transparency. The bird stays fully intact with clear transparent margin on all four edges, floating end to end within a 1:1 square frame. No lettering appears anywhere in the scene.
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