Did the second piece for this illustration competition - the theme was 'change' and the brief was to create a layer on top of the original photo provided. I think the Official Rationale that I provided was:

What struck me most about the original photograph was the rays of light that exposed the colour that lay hidden in the dark alley. This change to me represents the exposing of truth and in my interpretation, this truth also bares everything, to the bone. In line with the photograph’s original theme, it also brings colour and life, and the bones are brought into blinding clarity.

Which is part truth, part embellishment ha.

It was kinda really fun coming up with this piece, I did several of actual collage, drawing and paint layers on tracing paper before scanning them in to fiddle with in Photoshop. A side benefit from that is the other bits and pieces that come from the process itself.