At this point...

At this point I've gotten some good ideas going, I think. Here are some more. Since she's a beggar I wanted to go with the theme of money just barely being there. And I've got a cloth in front of her eyes to symbolize blindness. Not sure if the image is destroyed enough, though.

And below is a slightly more destroyed image but the main photo/face/sign is still there.

And here's another one I've been working on, again going with the whole money theme. And 'scratching out' her eyesight via brushes. I decided to pattern the image of the woman.

And the same image below, lightened and less muddy...

The image wraps around the coins, making her and her blindness a part of them.

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This is a rendering of an earlier design where the eyes are cut out in a horizontal bar across the page. I added text and her mouth to the bar, as well as the money concept. I kept the cloth covering her.

But I think it's a tad too dark so here's a lightened one below (with a different quote)...

I'm hoping the "Blind" comes through at the bottom.

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Take 1 (pink)

Take 2 (with glow)