# Evidence–Perception–Memory

## What the two source skills contribute

From `photo-abstract-editorial`, keep source lock, relational analysis, minimum recognition cues, restrained source-derived color, and the rule that abstraction is reconstruction rather than a filter. Do not inherit its fixed ivory panel, sparse central motif, typography, or diptych layout.

From `travel-photo-abstraction`, keep deconstruct–distill–reconstruct, relational invariants, explicit source mapping, deterministic assembly, and validation. Do not inherit its microtype, native-size upper-photo contract, CLEAN-only surface, fixed empty-space quota, or compact lower motif.

## The Starryear threefold grammar

The supplied examples establish a richer full-field language:

- tactile painterly or print-like surfaces;
- broad source-derived color fields rather than generic ivory;
- recognizability carried by a few bold anchors;
- photographic geometry expanded into a complete field;
- memory expressed as atlas, circuit, current, constellation, grid, or route;
- small highlights used as evidence, not decoration.

The top is allowed to feel like the remembered material of the scene. The bottom should feel like its invisible organization.

## Evidence worksheet

Record:

1. Identity anchors: the smallest cues that identify this exact subject.
2. Structural carrier: the dominant vertical, diagonal, horizon, frame, curve, or grid.
3. Field rhythm: count, interval, density, clustering, and pause.
4. Occlusion and depth: what blocks what, and which layers must remain ordered.
5. Palette hierarchy: dominant field, dark structure, pale relief, and any factual accent.
6. Material memory: stone, water sparkle, foliage haze, brick warmth, bamboo translucency, metal grid, or another observed surface quality.
7. Temporal cue: stillness, drift, passing blur, repeated growth, glance, descent, reflection, or distance.

## Top translation

Answer `What did the eye hold first?` Use shape, light, material, color, and recognizability. Preserve two to four anchors, but simplify internal detail. Let supporting evidence cross the full width. Texture may carry observed material or atmosphere, but cannot become an unrelated vintage effect.

## Bottom translation

Answer `How did the moment remain organized in memory?` Convert structural and temporal facts into routes, nodes, intervals, currents, frames, grids, or constellations. Preserve dominance, direction, count groups, gaps, overlap, and depth. Simplified subject cues are allowed only as coordinates within the system.

## Difference and source tests

The pair fails when both panels could be produced by swapping a few nouns in one prompt. It also fails when a major mark cannot complete: `This exists because the photograph contains ____.`

Top should read first as expressive perception; bottom should read first as relational memory. Connected, never repeated.
