thinking about covers

I still have several (or at least two) Timor-Leste posts to make, but meanwhile, I'm playing around with ideas for covers for Pen Pal. What are the pros and cons, as you see them, of something like this?



ETA It's funny, just having it up here and talking about it even a little is helping me articulate other things that dissatisfy me about it. I think it's too *static* somehow, for one thing.

I think I may want something entirely different.