Hi Charlotte,
The idea is splendid. You have a great responder in Fahim and no doubt many others who do not put it in writing.
This time, I have difficulty relating to the presentation of your image. It's so large on the page that even with the 24 inch iMac, I can't see it isolated, so can't get around it. Perhaps it needs a dark matte. However, it seems to cry out how it was made. It could be that such an image might be receptive, to me at least, if it had at least the texture of canvas and brush strokes of a painting, so one could see your hand in this. In the current showing, it seems that the emptiness overwhelms the celebration. Just my 0.02!
Asher