Marisol Painted Wood Assemblage (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Marisol Escobar's 1960s painted wooden assemblages, simplified forms made tactile by wood grain, construction seams, and shallow projection.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a shallow painted-wood relief in the register of Marisol Escobar's 1960s Pop assemblages. Imagine the existing silhouette cut from stacked rectangular blocks of unfinished pine and thin plywood, fitted together by hand in the same pose and spatial relationship as the source. Render the front-facing planes with thick, flat acrylic in chalk white, lipstick red, indigo, and amber, leaving narrow wood edges exposed around the original contour. Suggest volume with a few short projected planes and soft physical shadows cast onto a plain backing board, not with painted gradients. Trace important original details in sparse graphite pencil or thin black paint, allowing occasional lines to cross visible grain and knot marks. If a face or body appears, preserve its identity and gesture without inventing extra people or puppet features. If not, let an existing object or building carry the same block-built logic. Show a modest join, peg end, or fastening shadow where two carved planes meet; keep the construction credible rather than ornamental. The mood is social and witty but physically grounded, a public image returned to the weight of handmade matter. Maintain broad shapes that survive reduction to a small thumbnail. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
Pop often treats a public identity as an infinitely reproducible flat image. Marisol gives it weight, seams, and the visible labor of assembly. Even a simple outline has a back, a thickness, and someone who built it.
Tuning knobs
- Relief depth: `shallow stacked wood` (signature) vs `flat painted panel` vs `deep protruding blocks`
- Surface: `exposed pine grain` (signature) vs `painted plywood grain` vs `smooth sealed wood`
- Detail: `sparse graphite contour` (signature) vs `black painted line` vs `nearly unmarked surface`
- Joint: `one visible peg shadow` (signature) vs `flush concealed join` vs `multiple join seams`
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