Good suggestion, keenart. I probably would have added some additional lighting sources, if I hadn't been so stir crazy from lack of sleep...

The question for me now is whether to continue working on this same piece, or to start on a new project.

They had chained him down to things that are, and had then explained the workings of those things till mystery had gone out of the world....And when he had failed to find [wonder and mystery] in things whose laws are known and measurable, they told him he lacked imagination, and was immature because he preferred dream-illusions to the illusions of our physical creation.
      -- HP Lovecraft, The Silver Key