From the critique club:
First: this is a very good composition but because of the effect it falls into the abstract class. The how of this remains a mystery. The looker searches to no avail. Forgetting the smoke challenge, the image is strong. bring it into the challenge and it suffers from the ambiguity of what else accompanies the smoke. It turns into a riddle, but the viewer is not able to discern the answer.
On the left I think I see a candle of about 4 or 5 inch width. yet this is wrong because the smoke appears to emanates before this. Then, the smoke itself. Again, it looks like some shield with a hole and a tear like highlighted bottom, where the smoke is entering or is it exiting?
This is only my reflection. Others will have other issues. So again, you have a very artistic, abstract image in a challenge where the viewer wants to see smoke in its many ramifications, and they will allow smke to be abstract and dominate, but they will hold your feet to the fire because the other components instead of adding mystery added the unsolvable dilemma. If this were an abstract challenge, your mark would be ever so higher. Despite all this, I like it exactly as presented because it holds that hidden element.
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