"I can hear the echo in a maze of words--
A lonely voice behind a door
Can you hear me calling from a world away?
A lonely voice behind a door"
- October Project, "A Lonely Voice"

To everyone who is so far away: I miss you.

This deviation is inspired by several different things. It's meant to illustrate the feeling of missing people, of trying to contact and always coming up slightly short because of distance. I wanted to use a seashell because of a sculpture I saw with a young girl pressing a shell to her ear, and I remembered ~Ghost-addicted's stock and was thrilled. I liked the imagery so much (before I even started on the manip) that I began work on a sort of corresponding song, which still needs a great deal of work. It took me close to forever to find an appropriate shore, though, and when I finally got down to it, it took me just as long to get the details right (and GIMP died on me at one point, too, and I lost a lot of brushwork which I had to redo). I'm really proud of it, though, except for the hair I painted on the left side; it doesn't look right to me.

Stock:
Girl: ~Ghost-addicted
Shore: The Stock Exchange
Brushes: ~crashdowngrrl, ~dark-echo
Painted: Some hair, some makeup, various colours on the water