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Objective: Create a surrealist retro editorial poster about fragile digital connections, combining classical sculpture, exposed electronic components, and distressed print design. Canvas: A 2:3 aspect ratio vertical poster with a background of aged warm ivory paper with subtle stains, grain, scratches, and blurred creases. Main Composition: A large, broken classical plaster bust is placed slightly to the right center, cut from the head/shoulder down to a tapered, broken base. The bust is vertically split, revealing dense, dark circuit boards, chips, gold wires, copper wires, and bundles of cables inside. The edges of the plaster shell are jagged, cracked, dusty, and chipped. A 3.5 mm audio jack cable extends from an opening below, dangling near the bottom center. Flowing stone-carved hair adorns the sides of the head; parts of the face are missing or obscured by cracks. Wings: Add two detailed bird wings to the bust: a large, upward-reaching wing rising from the upper right shoulder, and a smaller, horizontal wing extending behind the hair on the lower right side. Scatter small plaster fragments and feather-like remnants around the wings. Left-side typography: Place a tall, narrow serif heading on the left, employing an elegant, high-fashion editorial style. The heading must read: “WE ARE ALL JUST BROKEN LINKS.” Use stacked lines; most words are black, while the word “BROKEN” is a large, distressed red, partially obscured by the central obstacle. Obstacle/Overlay: Add a large, opaque rectangular overlay to the left center foreground, covering part of the heading and the left side of the bust. The rectangle is a soft gray-beige, with a small, old-fashioned Windows-style blue title bar corner and a small close button visible near the upper right edge, hinting at a crashed dialog box. Do not add readable dialogue text within the rectangle. Technical Chart Background: Thin drawing lines, registration marks, circles, rectangles, dashed leader lines, small black nodes, and measurement-like geometric shapes are superimposed on paper. These charts are kept subtle and low-contrast, with a few rust-red square accents. Visible Small Text Elements: Contains nine separate text elements: 1) The large heading “WE ARE ALL JUST BROKEN LINKS”; 2) “fig. 23.” at the top; 3) A short paragraph stating “An inquiry into the fragility of connection in a fragmented digital age.”; 4) A thin red line below the paragraph; 5) Tiny red text “DISCONNECT TO CONNECT”; 6) “07-95”; 7) Two lines of terminal text “exist.exe” and “not found”; 8) “fig. a.” near the chart in the lower right corner; 9) “fig. b.” below it. Use small, sparse, letterpress-like typography. Style:{argument name="visual style" default="surreal vintage analog-digital collage poster"} A fusion of museum specimens and cyberpunk anatomy, featuring soft, monochromatic stone, black ink, antique paper, copper oxide, and dark circuit board green. Highly detailed, with realistic tactile textures, cracked plaster, lifelike electronic components, etched illustration quality, and aged printing effects. Customizable text: The main title can be {argument name="headline text" default="WE ARE ALL JUST BROKEN LINKS"} Short paragraphs can be{argument name="caption text" default="An inquiry into the fragility of connection in a fragmented digital age."} The subject can be{argument name="central subject" default="a broken classical plaster bust with exposed circuit boards"} Accent colors can be{argument name="accent color" default="rust red"} Constraints: Maintain compositional asymmetry, leave strong negative space on the left, avoid modern glossy UI except for minor details of old dialog boxes, avoid realistic human skin, avoid adding extra wings, avoid adding extra large text, and avoid adding watermarks.
Prompt breakdown
Objective: Create a surrealist retro editorial poster about fragile digital connections, combining classical sculpture, exposed electronic components, and distressed print design.
Canvas: A 2:3 aspect ratio vertical poster with a background of aged warm ivory paper with subtle stains, grain, scratches, and blurred creases.
Main Composition: A large, broken classical plaster bust is placed slightly to the right center, cut from the head/shoulder down to a tapered, broken base.
The bust is vertically split, revealing dense, dark circuit boards, chips, gold wires, copper wires, and bundles of cables inside.











