Original artwork description:

Here is a very stylish, young, hip, and beautiful city girl in all her downtown glory within the concrete and glass urban jungle that she calls home. A jungle is, for sure, with myriad inhabitants and endless streams of passersby daily from moment-to-moment, but perhaps that's the problem. For literally having the whole city behind her, this woman seems woefully alone and quite lonely as everybody continues to pass by. All appear not to notice her, no matter how many hairstyles she tries on or how many trendy outfits she uses to get noticed.

It's the desire of every woman to be noticed and to be reassured of her worth, which is truly wrapped up in the opinions of others and how they perceive of her just as her hair many times is wrapped up too. Will this poor, forlorn, downhearted lovely ever feel a part of the community or a part of a future partner's life? We can't know the future, but we know who holds her future... her and her creator alone. Opportunities literally walk right by her every day to engage others in simple dialogue, but will she seize the moment and reach out with a simple Hello? Maybe not.

This shy girl appears to blend in her city-side setting. She may as well be the potted plant in front of her in some sidewalk planter if she doesn't open up and let the city in. Like her eye here, hidden by her luscious locks of flowing hair... she is a gem of a gal who is verbally hidden in plain sight by her extreme shyness. Perhaps her world will always be so deeply blue and cold if she doesn't let a few warming rays from others in now and again

Materials used:

pen, ink, watercolour, digital

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