In the morning

A wide winter square stretches toward apartment buildings with a few glowing windows on the left, while an elevated highway or metro flyover sweeps in from the right, its columns receding toward a frozen river crossed by a distant tram. A lone figure in a red coat walks past a roadside billboard, with bare snow-dusted shrubs in the foreground and a crescent moon and jet contrail crossing the sky above.

The sky is painted in graduated bands of rose, peach and blue, softly blended with fine, even brushwork. Cool blue snow contrasts with the warm glow of windows and the rising light, giving the empty square a still, quiet, early-morning calm.