Personal Growth After Dinner Parties

An entry in A Bestiary of Strange Women

Scenario

I have just returned from a dinner-party of outgoing strangers [...] need to cleanse myself [...] the ghosts they have left behind in my body.

Digital ink portrait of a woman from the torso up. She has a surreal growth emerging from her back, neck, and part of her eye. She is dressed in a strapless party dress, has her hair cut to a very short pixies or grown out buzz cut, and has a piercing in each nostril.

Digital ink portrait of a woman from the torso up. She has a surreal growth emerging from her back, neck, and part of her eye. She is dressed in a strapless party dress, has her hair cut to a very short pixies or grown out buzz cut, and has a piercing in each nostril.

Detail cut out of the above drawing, showing just the woman's face and the part of the growth emerging from her eye.

Detail cut out of the above drawing, showing just the woman's face and the part of the growth emerging from her eye.

Detail cut out of the above drawing, showing some of the growth. The growth has some muscular and skeletal features and in two places looks reminiscent of a hand dripping excess matter.

Detail cut out of the above drawing, showing some of the growth. The growth has some muscular and skeletal features and in two places looks reminiscent of a hand dripping excess matter.