This painting has been a sort of colour shock to cleanse my recent palette.

I have been using more black and deeper tones in my recent Singularity works. I am happy with this move, but prior to this my palette had been much more saturated sometimes pure colour. This brighter palette still resides in me and I try and use it in my larger new pieces with subtle applications.

The move to a more subdued or subtle palette was an organic happening,

I basically have found myself in this world of post Singularity becoming the portrait painter for the beings left behind. I find myself feeling as if I am an unobserved observer catching moments of these creatures, in their 18th or 19th century finery, going about their day, wondering who or what they are.

Sometimes I consider this world and these creatures, caught betwixt humanity and machine, having a different concept of Time. Being, in essence, immortal in a way, I picture their vignettes frozen for what would be days to us. And I imagine myself, with easel and brush, slipping into a broken window in an old manse and finding their antics only frozen for days.

Computing and contemplating they might be held in almost statuesque stance for days.

And I imagine such a time as a subject of a portrait 'sitting' for their work to be done, but in a way unaware of my being there.

It is a fancy of mine and certainly the whimsical day dreamer sort of life an artist is allowed.

If a business man was sat down dreaming up scenarios for his portfolio I'm sure his clients and the market would not be amused.

But, I digress...

This piece I simply called "Disco Singularity" because I started creating a green and purple tinted ground to make simply a head study. When I decided on my usual love of ginger hair, the colours became so electric I went with it. I used to sort of use Monet's rule of no black, but now find it's depth almost magical. And surely this piece does have some black in, but the glow and shine of it was what I was working on. Hence: Disco.

I suppose as an artist one should attempt a very specific style, but I am not sure if I have done so.

I find I paint as I find; that is to say, when I sit down to make a piece, after studies and sketches, I often let the piece sort of take me on a ride. As I often say "story" is pretty important to me and sometimes the stories are different, as was the case with this Disco Diva.

However, I still imagined myself coming away from a darkened room, as was in my last Singularity painting, "the cage" slipping quietly unheard into another room whose walls were reverberating with an odd pouding disco beat. Upon opening the door, my view was flooded with stobe lights and flashing colours. In the center of the ballroom, quite bathed in light, was this creature.

Frozen in the many day contemplation of the immortal, she shone like a beacon.

And I set about capturing her, a very different mood from the place I had just left. Both creatures dwelling in the same world but in a sense, worlds apart.

The continuation of my series, which is becoming a sort of painted novel, continues. Who can say where it leads or how many 'chapters' there might be? Thank you for indulging me and coming along for the ride.

I hope your day is filled with story. And that you take a moment in your day to sit and imagine that world that sits right next to ours, unseen, easily viewed with a shift of perception.

If you like my work by all means upvote, resteem, and comment. I always appreciate comments.

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And check out my other posts.

• A video piece I made years ago: Does it show the fluidity of time?

Sharing my Work in Progress in pieces.

A sketch, a dahlia, and some teasels

My Drawing as Advertising Poster in my Singularity World

Painting Finished: My Latest Singularity Revealed "The Cage"

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