I tried to take my inspiration from the colours and textures suggested by the photograph.
I made my tunic do most of the work, colourwise, being super lazy. It's a pinky purple slub cotton woven in with charcoal weft, stitched in pink. I had a hard time getting the colour to show correctly in the photos, shooting in the bright afternoon sun here. Added dark brown cami and leggings, since I had no taupe or grey handy. (Not my best colours on the whole, and I'd ideally add a white scarf or something, but that wouldn't be true to the art!)
Used two white pearl earrings, barely visible, for the moon and its reflection in the photograph. Added grass bracelets to represent the scrubland just visible behind, the golden hues representing the sandy shore, the darker striations reminding me of elephant nails. Mock-croc clutch as reminiscent of the roughness of elephant hide, along with the slub tunic. Toyed with bone necklace (as have misplaced bone elephant pendant) to represent ivory, but felt wrong somehow, deep in my bones.
Meant to add quartz pendant to represent the glassiness of the water, but forgot. Have wet hair instead --- does that count? :-p
PS: In case anyone's wondering why the tunic has two sets of buttonholes and no buttons, this is an old-fashioned menswear style of kurta (a 'Punjabi' in Bengal, though the Punjab might be shocked at the attribution). One uses removable buttons like cufflinks or studs made of gold, silver, bone or mother of pearl, rarely wood, to bring the two sets together, which my overgrown boobage now prevents (hence the cami.)
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