Amateur photograph from 1998, a middle-aged artist in a studio, meticulously hand-copying an image from a computer screen onto a stretched oil painting canvas. The image on the screen shows the same photo of the artist painting this recursive scene, creating a self-referential and meta visual loop. Nostalgic, slightly surreal atmosphere, soft natural lighting, colors with a subtle faded 1990s photo aesthetic, highly detailed, realistic, emphasizing contemplation and the concept of recursion in artistic creation.