how winter became too long

and we couldn't wash the pale away from our vacant eyes...
[but not without trying....] rub them 'til the whites burn red and irritated....
...and water the seconds...

MODEL | the light glowing behind subject X
EXPLANATION | i'm sick of shooting shadows. BANGBANGBANG.

note: full-view is really the only way to understand why this is an 'emotive' picture..