When I saw the proofs last night, I laughed and groaned, because on the original negative there was even more distracting stuff on the table!(posted 8810 days ago)...maybe try it with the stuff on the table, it might be just as interesting, and I've often found that more 'complex' compositions sometimes don't fade away from memory for some reason as quickly as less complex ones. Case in point could be HCB...or (ugh, here we go again) Newton.
and I like the softness of the shadows in Number 2...