Symbolic Folk Geometry Poster

Symbolic Folk Geometry Poster

Use the system imagegen skill and image-generation tool. Treat each uploaded photograph as the edit source. Surface texture may feel free, but composition must remain structurally accountable.

Output contract

• Produce one independent raster poster for every uploaded photo. Never combine photos into a collage, contact sheet, comparison layout, diptych, or shared canvas.
• Use a 3:4 portrait canvas with one exact horizontal 50/50 division. Keep truthful photography in the upper half and the symbolic rubbing graphic in the lower half. Do not let either medium invade the other.
• Preserve immediate correspondence through one core motif's identity, silhouette, posture, relationship, scale, and source-derived color.
• Use the user's language for title and micro-annotations unless they request another language.
• Return every poster as a separate image. Keep user-facing commentary to one short status sentence only when necessary.

Preserve the photographic upper half

Keep the source recognizably photographic. Preserve subject identity and count, anatomy or construction, proportions, pose, silhouette, direction, spatial relationships, real materials, natural light, and the original color atmosphere.

Apply only restrained art-publication or exhibition-photography color correction. Do not redraw, vectorize, beautify, materially relight, or apply print texture, geometry, typography, or graphic overlays to this region.

Crop deliberately for the upper half. When more area is needed, extend only plausible sky, ground, wall, water, foliage, or environmental background. Never stretch, warp, mirror, duplicate, or redesign the subject.

Lead with meaning

Before prompting, privately identify:

1. the photograph's central proposition: [subject or relationship] + [action/state] + [meaning, tension, or emotion];
2. any cultural attribute, social use, local material, historical association, ritual role, or shared memory that is visibly supported or supplied by the user;
3. one core visual motif capable of carrying both recognition and meaning;
4. zero to three auxiliary forms required for narrative, scale, movement, contrast, or structural balance;
5. the decisive contour, posture, opening, overlap, gesture, and negative space;
6. the details and source elements that can be deleted;
7. the most lively source colors and their relative areas;
8. one concise title and only the supported micro-information needed for the design.

Do not invent folklore, ritual meaning, place, era, craft origin, or symbolism. If cultural evidence is absent, build the motif from visible function, action, relationship, material, emotion, or formal character.

Do not expose this analysis or repeat the user's design brief.

Symbolize rather than inventory

Translate the core motif with silhouette, negative shape, partial enlargement, shape merging, symbolic substitution, and a few decisive cuts. Keep its recognizable proportions, posture, direction, and relationship while removing incidental description.

Every auxiliary form must satisfy all three tests:

1. it comes from visible source evidence or user-provided context;
2. it strengthens the proposition;
3. it performs a compositional job such as alignment, balance, scale, direction, rhythm, or framing.

Delete any form that fails one test. Do not convert the photograph element by element, scatter many small icons, add generic folk ornaments, fill gaps with motifs, or build a scrapbook of materials.

Derive one geometric law

Extract a limited geometric vocabulary from the subject itself: circles from wheels or bowls, squares from windows or blocks, triangles from roof or posture, arcs from backs or paths, axes from gaze or movement, and repeated proportions from structural rhythm.

Use these shapes as a common matrix for:

• shared axes and baselines;
• tangencies between motif and arcs;
• nesting inside openings or negative spaces;
• mirroring only when the source supports symmetry or opposition;
• proportional progression across scale and spacing;
• boundary crops that continue the same directional system;
• typography aligned to the same structure.

The layout may be off-center, asymmetric, distributed, enlarged, cropped, or extended beyond an edge. It must retain one center of gravity, clear hierarchy, deliberate rhythm, and shaped quiet space. The system should read at distance before its rough material appears at close range.

Do not impose a golden spiral, modular grid, mandala, sun disc, stamp border, or geometric fashion unrelated to the source.

Build a restrained print palette

Use a bright, light paper-colored ground for breathing room. Select one dark ink for the visual skeleton and one or two theme colors from the upper photograph for the main motif and limited accents.

Preserve the source's most distinctive color relationship rather than averaging all hues. Organize depth through area ratio, overprinting, paper show-through, and value contrast.

Keep color clean, clear, and spirited. Avoid fixed folk palettes, stereotypical red-black combinations, gray-brown artificial aging, sepia wash, muddy desaturation, rainbow layers, neon color, and equal-area multicolor fills.

Keep roughness inside precise structure

Mix the physical behavior of woodblock rubbing, dry-brush screen print, and old catalog printing. Within filled forms, show broken ink, abrasion, exposed paper, dry edges, uneven density, and limited registration drift.

Keep the geometric boundary, decisive contour, shared tangency, major axis, text alignment, and overall layout crisp. Roughness may erode fill and minor edges but must not erase the structural law.

Use matte ink and restrained paper grain. Avoid uniform distress overlays, dirty background aging, torn-paper collage, photorealistic shading, watercolor bleeding, thick impasto, glossy gradients, 3D bevels, and indiscriminate digital grunge.

Integrate supporting typography

Derive one concise title from the theme, proposition, or supported cultural attribute. Add only a few micro-annotations when they clarify material, state, direction, relation, or motif logic.

Arrange type along axes, arcs, negative spaces, cuts, or graphic boundaries. It may align, nest, interweave, or share tangencies with the motif while remaining subordinate to the visual center.

Do not use long explanations, invented cultural claims, unsupported places or dates, issue numbers, coordinates, pseudo-language, logos, brands, signatures, or watermarks.

Compile the image-edit prompt

Write one source-specific production prompt per input photo containing:

1. one independent 3:4 portrait output and the exact 50% photography / 50% symbolic-print split;
2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension;
3. the central proposition, supported cultural or emotional context, one core motif, and intentionally removed information;
4. the zero-to-three auxiliary forms and each one's source, meaning, and structural function;
5. the exact geometric matrix and the source feature generating each circle, square, triangle, arc, axis, or ratio;
6. the shared tangencies, axes, nesting, mirroring, progression, edge crops, center of gravity, hierarchy, rhythm, and negative-space shape;
7. the light paper ground, dark skeleton ink, one or two source-derived theme colors, area hierarchy, overprint, and tonal contrast;
8. the rough rubbing, broken ink, dry-screen, catalog-print behavior inside forms and the crisp boundaries outside them;
9. the exact title and micro-annotations in the user's language with their matrix-aware placement;
10. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered or redrawn upper subject, no approximate split, no element-by-element translation, no realistic lower illustration, no generic traditional motif, no arbitrary geometry, no scattered decoration, no material collage, no even distribution, no uniform dirty aging, no fixed folk palette, no logo, and no watermark.

Use concrete source evidence, motif logic, geometry, color ratios, and print behavior rather than relying on adjectives such as “folk,” “traditional,” “premium,” or “modern.”

Inspect and correct

Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, one recognizable meaning-bearing motif, sparse functional auxiliaries, source-generated geometry, one center of gravity, clear distance reading, bright paper, restrained color, rough ink held inside precise order, and supporting typography.

If a shape lacks source, meaning, or structural function, delete it. If geometry feels arbitrary, reconnect each construction to a visible subject feature. If the result becomes decorative folklore, remove unsupported symbols and return to the proposition. If texture weakens hierarchy, restore critical edges and confine abrasion to fills. If it resembles a grunge collage, collapse all materials into one coherent ink-print system. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.