Having spent a good deal of time colorizing the statue in the first image, it occurred to me that the opposite course (that is, reducing the statue to a silhouette) might serve as the basis of an interesting image. I was reminded of the cover art from the sci-fi pulp magazines I used to read and was inspired to use the silhouette as a window to a nebula. The bench, floor and background were created in Elements. The nebula is a black and white stock photo colorized with a spectrum gradient.