Recursive artist painting a photo of himself painting

Creates an amateur 1998-style photograph of a middle-aged artist copying an image from a computer screen to canvas, where the image itself is a photo of the artist painting the recursive image, ideal for mind-bending meta scenes.

Example Prompt
An amateur photograph from {argument name="year_en" default="1998"} of a middle-aged artist copying an image by hand from a computer screen to an oil painting on stretched canvas, but the image is itself the photo of the artist painting the recursive image.
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