Prompt

An extraordinary original surrealist oil painting, landscape 4:3. A monumental pale-stone spiral staircase rises out of an utterly still cobalt sea and gradually becomes a ribbon of white cloud near a small golden moon. At the bottom step, a single antique pocket watch lies open; a thin stream of liquid gold flows from its face and becomes a luminous reflection across the water. No numbers or readable markings. One tiny empty wooden boat supplies scale, tied to the staircase. Vast spacious sky shifts from burnt apricot at the horizon to midnight blue above; precise impossible architecture, convincing stone, exquisite brushed oil texture, old-master chiaroscuro and modern graphic clarity. Quiet, haunting, museum-quality composition, no people, signatures, text, logos or copies of known paintings.