Expand Comic & Mass Culture sequential art holdings

.agents/skills/mosfa-art-curator/SKILL.md

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Use this skill for requests involving:
 5. For curation or quality decisions, load `references/rubric.md`.
 6. For wing, era, or category placement, load `references/wings.md`.
 7. For website metadata, load `references/metadata-style.md` and inspect existing records in `src/data/artworks.yaml`.
+8. When exploring uncertain visual directions, consider the contact-sheet workflow in `references/prompt-template.md` and evaluate variants with `references/rubric.md` before committing to a single image or accession path.
 
 
 ## Skill Evolution Meta-Instructions
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ When doing this:
 - Make shrimp-folk integration feel inevitable, not pasted on.
 - Critique weak concepts honestly before generation or accession.
 - Default to a curatorial development pass before image generation unless the user explicitly asks for immediate execution.
+- Use contact sheets for broad visual exploration when multiple compositions, installation views, material treatments, or exhibit-wall arrangements may be viable.
 - Separate generation from evaluation. The Generation Director may propose; the Curator may still reject, revise, or downgrade.
 - Avoid shallow novelty. The goal is a beautiful, intentional, stylistically convincing museum work.
 

.agents/skills/mosfa-art-curator/references/prompt-template.md

@@ -63,6 +63,26 @@ Write a detailed image-generation prompt that includes:
 - Mood and atmosphere.
 - Negative constraints: no humans, no food joke, no shrimp pasted onto human bodies.
 
+## Contact-Sheet Workflow
+
+Use contact sheets when the strongest direction is not yet obvious, or when a project benefits from comparing many plausible options before narrowing. This is especially useful for exhibition wall photographs, installation views, artifact studies, poster/key-art directions, and reinterpretations where composition, lighting, costume, or material finish could go several ways.
+
+For a contact sheet:
+
+- Ask for a coherent grid of distinct variants, usually 4, 6, 9, or 12 frames.
+- Keep the curatorial premise, canon constraints, and negative constraints stable across all frames.
+- Vary only the dimensions that matter: camera distance, crop, lighting, wall arrangement, artifact orientation, palette, pose, period styling, or degree of shrimp-folk cultural specificity.
+- Make each frame read as a serious candidate image, not a thumbnail collage, mood board, or random scatter of unrelated ideas.
+- Require consistent museum-grade finish across variants: legible focal subject, controlled lighting, no humans, no food framing, no joke tone.
+- If the contact sheet is for exhibition wall photography, treat each frame as a documentary installation photograph with real gallery spacing, labels, sightlines, wall scale, and visitor-free or carefully minimized views.
+- After review, select one to three promising variants for refinement or regeneration instead of accessioning directly from the exploratory sheet.
+
+Contact-sheet prompt pattern:
+
+```markdown
+Create a [4/6/9/12]-image contact sheet exploring distinct curatorially serious variants of [concept]. All frames must preserve [core source/composition/worldbuilding rule]. Vary [specific variables] while keeping [stable canon/style constraints]. Each frame should feel like a plausible finished MOSFA candidate, with museum-grade lighting, coherent shrimp-folk anatomy/culture, no humans, no food framing, and no comic novelty. Present as a clean grid of separate images for comparison.
+```
+
 For physical cultural objects and archaeological accessions:
 
 - Prompt them as real museum objects first: single focal artifact, conservation lighting, plinth or archival support, and inspectable material construction.

.agents/skills/mosfa-art-curator/references/rubric.md

@@ -83,3 +83,31 @@ Required revisions:
 Accession notes:
 [Suggested wing, categories, title, or metadata guidance if accepted.]
 ```
+
+## Contact-Sheet Review
+
+When reviewing a contact sheet, treat it as a scouting instrument rather than a finished accession. Compare variants against the same Masterpiece, Gallery, and Reject/Revise standards, but focus on selection and next-step direction.
+
+Prioritize variants that have:
+
+- The clearest focal structure at thumbnail and full size.
+- The strongest preservation of the source composition, movement, or exhibition premise.
+- Shrimp-folk integration that changes the logic of the image rather than decorating it.
+- The best balance of museum seriousness, visual specificity, and restraint.
+- The fewest generation liabilities: anatomy drift, muddled labels, clutter, human defaults, food associations, or joke tone.
+
+Use this concise structure:
+
+```markdown
+Best candidates:
+- Variant [number/position]: [why it should advance]
+
+Hold or study:
+- Variant [number/position]: [what works, what limits it]
+
+Reject:
+- Variant [number/position]: [specific failure]
+
+Recommended next step:
+[Refine one selected variant, regenerate a narrowed contact sheet, or abandon the direction.]
+```

src/data/artworks.yaml

@@ -313,6 +313,70 @@
   featured: false
   published: true
 
+- title: Pinkwhisker Sunday Current Page
+  slug: pinkwhisker-sunday-current-page
+  artistReference: Early newspaper Sunday comics
+  sourceWork: Sunday supplement sequential-page traditions
+  yearOrPeriod: c. 1900s newspaper comics translation
+  era: Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion
+  categories:
+    - Newspaper Comics
+    - Sequential Art
+  image: artworks/pinkwhisker-sunday-current-page.png
+  imageAlt: A vintage Sunday newspaper comics page about the shrimp-folk messenger Pinkwhisker, with ornate masthead, cream newsprint, sequential panels, and muted color lithography.
+  summary: An early Sunday-page accession where civic errand, current-gate mishap, panel rhythm, and ornamental newspaper design expand the pavilion beyond cover imagery.
+  description: This Gallery Tier newspaper-comics accession preserves the broad Sunday supplement page as a complete printed object, letting shrimp-folk anatomy, reef-city errands, speech balloons, and period color registration carry the sequential grammar.
+  featured: false
+  published: true
+
+- title: Weird Tides No. 27
+  slug: weird-tides-no-27
+  artistReference: 1950s pre-Code horror and weird science anthologies
+  sourceWork: Pulp horror and science-fiction comic cover traditions
+  yearOrPeriod: 1950s anthology-cover translation
+  era: Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion
+  categories:
+    - Pulp Anthologies
+    - Sequential Art
+  image: artworks/weird-tides-no-27.png
+  imageAlt: A worn 1950s-style Weird Tides comic cover showing a shrimp-folk pressure scientist facing a spectral molting shell in a lurid underwater laboratory.
+  summary: A pulp anthology cover that brings horror, weird science, damaged newsstand paper, and theatrical dread into shrimp-folk mass culture.
+  description: A Gallery Tier pulp accession, selected for its disciplined masthead hierarchy, worn cover surface, heavy shadows, and convincing conversion of weird-science terror into abyssal molt mythology.
+  featured: false
+  published: true
+
+- title: Tide Marks in Her Hand
+  slug: tide-marks-in-her-hand
+  artistReference: Alternative comics and graphic memoir
+  sourceWork: Small-press autobiographical comics page traditions
+  yearOrPeriod: Late 20th-century graphic memoir translation
+  era: Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion
+  categories:
+    - Alternative Comics
+    - Sequential Art
+  image: artworks/tide-marks-in-her-hand.png
+  imageAlt: A black-and-white alternative comics page with pale teal wash, showing a shrimp-folk narrator reading a tide calendar and remembering a parent by a canal.
+  summary: A quiet graphic-memoir page where hand lettering, raw brush line, domestic scale, and shell memory give the pavilion an intimate small-press register.
+  description: This Gallery Tier alternative-comics accession uses irregular panels, photocopy texture, restrained wash, and close observation of claw, calendar, and antenna gesture to make molt and family memory legible without spectacle.
+  featured: false
+  published: true
+
+- title: Tide Route Messenger Page
+  slug: tide-route-messenger-page
+  artistReference: Postwar manga page traditions
+  sourceWork: Cinematic manga transit sequence
+  yearOrPeriod: Late 20th-century international comics translation
+  era: Comic & Mass Culture Pavilion
+  categories:
+    - International Comics
+    - Sequential Art
+  image: artworks/tide-route-messenger-page.png
+  imageAlt: A black-and-white manga-style page showing a young shrimp-folk messenger and an elder shell engineer at a submerged transit station as a current train arrives.
+  summary: A manga-page accession where cinematic pacing, screentone, transit architecture, and silent reaction panels extend the pavilion into international sequential art.
+  description: A Gallery Tier international-comics accession, strongest in its controlled black-and-white values, page timing, mechanical setting, and coherent shrimp-folk figures moving through a modern tide-transit world.
+  featured: false
+  published: true
+
 - title: Stand Watch for the Reef
   slug: stand-watch-for-the-reef
   artistReference: Reef War II recruitment poster archive