Another snippet of my current painting

A bit more:

"Everyone carries a shadow and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."
-Jung

I intended to share the second image today, but as it is a vertical I knew it had to be cropped. When I cropped it for the "Steemit Chop" ,as I call it, to make it fit into the horizontal perimeters Steemit uses for it's thumbnails, I sort of liked it. It gave a false impression of whose shadow it was.

This fits with my own exploration of the Jungian 'dark side' subconscious.

In a very pared down idea of Jung and the shadow: the shadow represents our dark side or that to which we often attribute our dark leanings, but if we are to addess that dark side, we can indeed find positive in it.

For my part, in this series, I love the use of shadow as that dark side of humanity.

My beings, wandering the post Singularity world wondering what they are, have symbolism everywhere for them to recall their human pasts; only we are not sure they have yet fully realized it or come to see it as part of themselves.

I also love that the shadows, in a very obvious way, gives the 'story' of these paintings another narrative that has an almost theatre like quality.

Who is in the shadows? Who is casting the shadows? Are we the shadows of our old selves as human?

This is from my last Singularity piece and I shared it as a shadow.

In that piece the shadow played a dual role with his odd shape, reminiscent of plague doctors of old, giving one pause to consider is it the past or future.

Now this piece of which I am sharing the woman, owl, and shadow has other elements I have shared in the past.

I love to share my work in this surprise sort of way.

I like the idea of seeing just bits of the over all piece as I work on it. Like, as a child, holding your hands in front of your face, only peeping out cracks of our fingers to take in snippets of a view. Perhaps to hide the fear of what goes bump in the night, or simply to leave out moments of a scene giving it more drama by only seeing bits of it. At least I often did that as a child.

Well, I could go on and heaven knows I usually do, but I was cautious to post today anything other than a simple photograph. However, seeing other artists, such as the talented @gric and the ever prolific @veryspider and @scrawly (and far too many to mention all) still posting daily art, I figured I'd better just dive right back into it!

I haven't for a moment pretended to know what is going on with the Hard Fork

In fact I don't pretend to know what a hard fork even is or what is meant by it! I only know that the place I loved to visit daily and had become the corner stone of my own daily work calendar in studio and life suddenly was gone or at least changed from how it was.

They do say the one constant in Life is Change.

But, I came to look upon Steemit as a sort of foundation and then it crumbled a bit, so I'm still not certain if I am meant to even use my votes. But, my mana (whatever that might be) has charged and my voting is almost at 100% so today I will, after this post and with trepidation venture out to visit all my favourites and try to dish out little votes as best I can.

I've also heard that we can only make 10 votes a day if we are not a whale? Or maybe I misunderstood, which is highly possible and probable.

I have called Steemit a small town compared to Facebook's large city and boy has it seemed that way of late.

The gossiping over the fence and in back alleys of late have run the gambit from the hardfork being our salvation to the ruination of our lives! Much like a small town, the word gets out quick and it goes through countless iterations before it returns to your ears, in a new form.

Well, I haven't a clue what I am meant to do, but here we go: I have shared my art I am working on, as is usual for me, and I wrote a bit, which I am like to do, and now I am off (with coffee in hand) to visit all of you. If I don't make it to you today, it might simply be some virtual wall built up to keep minnows such as me from nibbling at your posts :)

Happy Steeming (whatever that might presently mean).