This started off as a contest piece for a competition.   I did not win the competition because it was for a movie poster.  What they wanted was photo manipulation, not painting from scratch.   However, while I was painting it for the competition I fell in love with the face.   So, I worked on it for a long time, over a week.  I imagined a beautiful woman committed some horrible act was condemned to a garden of Barbed Flowers.  The rest of the story is up to the viewer.  Late Nwagz