Doshpuluur [Snapped String]
My piece for the Resonant Echoes event! @outerwilds-events
I've been in a major art block lately, but I'm glad I was able to put this together TToTT it took... an ungodly amount of warmups and exercises to bring the skills back into functioning order. It's awesome to be working with the community and everyone's pieces are so cool...
[image description: An illustration of Gossan, seen through a cracked windowpane. Gossan is sitting by themself on a wooden pier by a river, underneath a Maple tree with reddish leaves, tuning their instrument, a Doshpuluur. It is a trapezoidal stringed instrument, typically featuring two strings, but as many as four. Gossan is looking at the viewer intently, mostly clad in ill-fitting, too-large garments. They have shrugged their left sleeve off to better see their fretwork, but with relatively fresh scars on the left side of their body, the hand-eye coordination isn't at the level they'd expect it to be. Uncomfortable and frustrated, they keep at their task, pushing the durability of their instruments' strings to the limit, keenly aware of the viewer, half-obscured by fluttering, glittery drapes, sparkling like fishscales.]
