*critique club*
Starting from you final score, I think that you'll realise that you got hammered for being considered off-topic. 'Shadows' and 'low key' have different meanings in photography. 'Low key' refers to a photo where the overall colour range is dark, like in your entry, sometimes created by shadow regions, sometimes not.
Leaving that aside, there is another reason why you got hammered in the voting - DPC tends not to favour challenging images, as yours is. By 'challenging', I mean images whose meaning is not immediately apparent, including abstracts, and images that are even slightly uncomfortable or grotesque.
Photographically, your intention could have been reinforced by reducing the clutter around the object, by making the ice-breath more obvious through a repositioning of the camera angle and by adding more light to the head area to clarify the object.
Best wishes,
Jim
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