This is really good. To be able to switch from your realistic representations in the great black and white landscapes you do, to reduce the technique(I mean in a culinary sense) and put together a shot like this... just great.
Baroque and yet, so simple - this is THE image we long for to contemplate.
"Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them. "
A spectacular palipsest of memory and melancholy as said by the Ecclesiastes
"For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?"
I consider this image a spectacular achievement in photography.
This is by far the best interpretation of the challenge in my view, leaving the digital art and other little tricks way behind.