Hecate Trimorphe Triodia Phosp

Hecate Trimorphe Triodia Phosphorus @ Styx w/Cerberus ([link] explains epithets)

for: De-Cliche and Surreal It Challenge @ level 3

In this image, I tried to play with the concept of cliche, both approaching cliche, but backing away from it also, as per the challenge, via my treatment of the image: instead of some swooning woman in a graveyard, I took an image that might be used as such, or in steampunk manipulations, and turned her into the Goddess Hecate. Her image is straight from the stock photographer, except that I have combined 3 views of her into one (Trimorphe) so she has 3 heads, and 8 arms, similar to Vedic Goddesses. Further, at her side is her trusty canine Cerberus, also 3-headed. She stands at a triple crossroads (magically jutting forward and out and up to each side: Triordial)) and as she appears, the multiverse folds in/out on itself, with the River Styx splashing in the background and a magical fractal lightshow obscuring the (cliched) Moon: Phosphorus, with the very cliched, flat cauldron. I tried to create the image in a triangular construction, and the lightest and most colorful parts of the image focus on the faces of the Goddess, and secondarily the dog and background. The (cliched) triple nature of the Moon, obscured in it's full view, by fractals that echo the waxing and waning views, is hidden by the sur-reality of the magic of the fractals, as Hecate is the Goddess of magic, the moon, and crossroads, especially to the underworld.

Thanks for the following stock:

My choice of the required stocks, for this challenge: Gothic Rococo Stock 007 by

Additional stocks:
Background: Premade Background 794 by
Blue fractal: The Tunnel Fractal stock, by
Pinkish fractal: Polarity fractal stock, by
Dog: 07, 10, and 11, by
Moon: Full Moon by
Tunnel: Day 82 Tunnel Stock, by

cauldron created in PS