This is my second attempt on watercolors. This is an illustration made for a short story titled "Gasp", published on 29th March '09, in a national newspaper, the Jakarta Post. The story's kinda full of metaphores: the pond (the water element on the chest) is the man's conscience, the lizards is a symbol of renewal (when they shed their skins) and the lift on the background is like a trancendental-vertical way up to another new life path for the man. And the files, well, I think of it as a messy piles of memories of life that fills his head.

It was weird and exciting to do, I was experimenting on this and that, but I'm quite satisfied with the result. I wanna say zillion thanx to for helping me to understand the artsy ballsy short story and her valuable suggestions for the drawing. She is a genius indeed.

Hope u like it!