Nice one, Mariuca. This one definitely arrested my attention and frustrated my attempts to make its disparate elements cohere. The choice to blur the statuette's face while keeping the gaze fully intact is evocatively genius.
i like the mysteriousness of this image. I like how I keep changing my mind about how much of this is real and how much painted. something weird about what is focused and what is blurred. I resisted at first what seems like a vignette, but a vignette isn't so normal when it's putting the focus on scritchy nothingness. And normal is to be avoided at all costs.
this is my absolute favourite in the challenge and i am seeing it with a blue ribbon in a week ..
i love the confusion .. it's like a dream ..
oh ... after writing that i saw your title .. very fitting ...