dreamlike surreal illustration, painterly book-cover quality, muted warm palette, soft grain, atmospheric depth, a sense of solitary journeying, no text, subtle hand-painted texture --------------------------------------- A lone caravan of travelers and camels crossing a vast desert under harsh blazing midday sun, seen from behind as they move toward the horizon. On the shimmering heat-distorted horizon floats a mirage: a colossal translucent two-faced Janus head, one face gazing back the way they came, one gazing forward into the unknown, formed entirely from wavering heat-haze and light rather than solid stone, half-dissolving into the rippling air. The apparition looks beautiful and unreal, made of shimmer and mirage. Vast empty sky, endless dunes, tiny figures against immense space. Dreamlike surreal illustration, painterly book-cover quality, muted warm palette of sand and gold, strong heat-shimmer effect, soft grain, atmospheric depth, a sense of solitary journeying toward a more or less "transcended" image of the egyption god thoth as shown on hieroglyphs, no text. --ar 3:2 Ver mais