Overhead locked-off shot, lit table surface.

Overhead locked-off shot, lit table surface. An artist's hands work sand on a backlit glass surface. She sweeps, pinches, and drags the sand in rapid fluid gestures — each movement forming and dissolving images: a wave becomes a face, a face dissolves into a forest, the forest becomes a city skyline, the skyline scatters into stars. The camera occasionally cuts to an extreme close-up of hands during a detailed passage, then returns to the overhead master shot. The sequence is continuous — no resets, no cuts to the audience. Only the artist's hands and the sand.