Charcoal on paper

A Halo of Graphite

A Halo of Graphite
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Light pools behind him on the bare page, lending an ordinary face a quiet radiance.

An ordinary face on an otherwise bare page, lit from behind so the paper itself does the glowing. Nothing around the head is described — no setting, no background — which is what lets the light read as a halo rather than as a wall.

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