A pale hand rises from darkness with fingers splayed upward, transforming into delicate green laurel leaves and branches that crown the composition. Against a nearly black ground, the figure glows with an ethereal light, capturing the mythological moment of metamorphosis with baroque sensibility and intimate, almost haunting detail. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.