Jayde vs. The Girl With Wooden Hair

A portrait engraved in wood. The face, blank; unwritten but not empty. The hair, flowing long, showed a moment caught in carving and there seemed to lie her life's animated expression.

Jayde regarded this apparition with tilted head and pursed lips almost chewing her paintbrush. It was new, had caught her attention from the many-lined sketches plotting her latest sculpture-to-be. She shifted position so now the brush hovered before the engraving.

Her fingers darted. Quick, faint lines hinting at body and larger shapes around, a swirl of unresolved relation and detail. She wondered what she would make of it.

Incomplete...

Last night soltice and I were discussing AV science fiction and trying to come up with something we would like better than what is currently available. Toward the end we were starting to despair, but we did salvage about half a movie poster.

We have a tagline: "There is nothing new under the sun"
We have a setting: Story focus should be on a free-floating world, not gravitationally bound to any star.

That can be the poster image too.

Would anyone care to jump on it? At this moment the idea of collecting a few stories based on the same prompt seems like a fun idea. Am tempted to try my hand at it, see if I can produce a couple of distinct variations on the idea. 'New', well, will have to be creative about interpreting that; Ecclesiastes had that particular set of words pretty accurate.