If the winner doesn’t supply a theme before Thursday 22:30 GMT, the organizer will select the theme. In this case, the winner’s theme will be used the next time we are lacking a theme on Thursday 22:30 GMT.
Having selected the theme, the winner will not be eligible to enter that week. They may however still submit an image, but it won’t be included in the voting.
I think that Slavoj Zizek himself would argue that though your entry’s minimalism would have cost you votes, the emptiness and dullness that it created aligned itself perfectly with the topic. I think the Old Temple is great illustration of Nietzsche’s announcement of God’s death. Congrats @Trentle and @Tachtian, the two entries that I voted for