The Sea Word Wall

This is my second illustration for Chris Bird's story 'The Sea Books'

http://www.lalluredesmots.com/fiction/the-sea-books-by-chris-bird

I've been working on it, on and off, for weeks on iPhone and iPad using 'Brushes' app.
This image illustrates the two factions that develop after books mysteriously wash up on the shore and nobody knows how to handle the crisis  ---------

(This story was written long before the current walls and refugee crises of contemporary Europe and in that respect represents something of a premonition)

Here's an extract from the story:

'......Soon two principal factions solidified. One group argued that the books should be dumped into an open pit and then burnt using gasoline. Their opponents wanted to construct an enormous monument in adoration of the sea’s unsolicited gift.
     The gradual loss of the stars intensified the crisis. One faction, in an attempt to blame their opposition for the loss of the stars wore large star shaped emblems as masks in night time rallies beside the shore. Another faction draped themselves with symbolic wooden flames painted orange and gold. The small community took to segregating themselves on either side of a village dividing line known as the ‘Sea Word Wall’. ........'