Response to shy girl (v. 2)

An unusual result. It's a nice photograph that inspires different responses in me. The color is reminiscent of mannequin skin tone and the sheen on her skin increases my impression that this is a plastic girl. But her expression is so compellingly human, and everything is that same color so that "Barbie" impression soon recedes. All the shapes of the background elements have body part-like contours to them. It actually took me a couple of minutes to realize that the dark fat line at middle left/edge is a tree covered shoreline far across the water. I was trying to make it, and the shapes beneath her chin, part of another human. Interesting shot... t

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