Wet-Sand Likeness

Someone on a beach has packed wet sand into this child, full size, standing as they stood in the photograph. The face is still theirs, simplified by the grain of the sand but readable. Clothes become packed forms with a bucket-and-trowel texture, not knitted wool, not a snow globe, not a cartoon. Water drips from a cuff. Shell grit and a few pebbles sit in the sand. The original background becomes a low sand wall and a scratch of horizon — the same layout, reduced to beach. Overcast seaside light, no golden fantasy, no sandcastle turrets unless they were already in the photo. Not a miniature in glass.