The client was looking for a surreal dark toned stylised character featuring child-like innocence juxtaposing the reality of the adult life for a woman, especially living in a toxic environment. The image needed to speak about the courage to let go for someone who has being a victim for a long time. Needed to be appealing for teenage audiences taking visual elements from anime, goth and punk subculture, lolita style and dolls.
The final piece was called The Emancipation of Agatha accompanied by the following text:
Agatha stood at the edge of her old life, the weight of years spent in silent submission pressing heavily upon her. The house, once a cage of whispered dreams and stifled desires, now lay behind her, its windows dark and unseeing. Each step away felt like shedding a layer of sorrow, but also a piece of herself.Freedom tasted bittersweet, tinged with the melancholy of lost time and faded hopes. The world ahead was vast and uncertain, an expanse she had never dared to explore.Yet, as the first light of dawn touched her face, she felt a quiet resolve. Emancipation was hers, a fragile, trembling bird taking its first flight, carrying with it the weight of all that had been and all that could never be.
