Creative piece Carol!! Now THIS is totally hott!! Fantastic flame and the gradient couldn't be any better!! Great overall sense and dynamically detailed!! Congrats and keep on rocking these flames out!!
Simply gorgeous. It's the colour that really makes this one stand out. I like 'lava nebula' as well, but not as much as the elegant simplicity of this original.
I'm not sure what I see - the two black elements could be holes in the fabric. They could be things in the foreground, though, so there's a minor optical illusion here. "An ambiguity in strawberry", perhaps!
I'm tempted to see the oval as a face watching over the circle - like a person carefully tending a cooking pot or potion of some sort - maybe a medicine for a loved one.