SciFi and Fantasy Art: Missing the Wind

yea im first.i love it. great detail.I especially like the two different wings.great job.

Is that Myre? I like the apocalyptic tone you have drawn. Yes...*smirks* As always I like your style and if you want me to critique, you could shade more. Yet your picture is still really cool, and I am still working up to you. NYAHAHAHA I WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU. *looks down at the ground* I hope. ^-^

Ooh. Deep Hidden Meaning! Great! Get ready for a insomniac's spiel! *motions to rolls up sleeves, remembers he is shirtless, and slaps his head*
Uummm... lesse here, you've got your metal wing on the left side of the pic... and everything on that side of the pic seems to be that apocalyptic future thing. I also notice how that wing is held lower than the other - almost as though it couldn't carry its own weight, somewhat disfunctional, and hanging by a hinge. That street light in the mid-ground almost seems to look like a water faucet too (at least to me). Is that intentional? Technology's drowning itself out, I'd guess.
Can't help but notice how serene everything seems in the right portion of the picture. Also I can't help but notice that that tranquil calm only takes up a minority of the space. The shading of the sky seems to tell me that clouds only cover that metropolitan mess on the left side - likely it's smog created by that city's technology, squelching any and all light coming in while not letting its own light out. (Funny how the church belongs to that - I could go on about that but I'm only allowed 2000 characters here...) The nature scene seems to accept light more readily, and it allows itself to be seen from miles above, instead of some black sooty mess. I'm sure the literary meaning is apparent in that.
Then there's that water. When in a ruined city, the water almost seems to be foreboding, a flood reeking of death, containing and supressing the memories of the city, hiding in the sadness that they will never be let out or known again. Broken mirror of dreams, if you will. On nature's side, it really seems to be the sparkling life-giving fluid. The true Mother Ocean, I guess.
As for the title, I'm gonna hafta guess. For starters, the breeze would be so nice and cool on one side, while on the other it would seem like cold, polluted death. But, perhaps more importantly, a wing that can't carry itself can't carry yourself to fly - looks like Myre's being held down by one portion of her world. Think about the people within that world - they can't be 'free like the wind' at all. If that pool of water were deeper, she'd be drowning. That raven there doesn't have a flying problem, though. World can go to Hades for us, like _they'd_ care. They'd go on. Could humans?
Well, I'll be hitting 2000 characters pretty soon, so I guess I better be off with that. Hope this wasn't too long.

Heh don't know much about symbolism... what I do know is that left wing is beautiful, and so is the rest of the picture for that matter...