Singularity

 Those who loves the ocean will appreciate the character depicted in this portrait of a rock--hanging kelp, barnacles, line of dried barnacles, waterline discolorations, and dried quano.   I titled it singularity because physicists believe that the universe began as a tiny dot of energy called a singularity.  What we are made of and everything else in the universe were all present in that singularity.   At that time, the elements that formed this rock were as valid as you and me.  I also wanted to paint the rock in an unusual way; it almost fills the canvas and is painted as if it were a portrait.  There are hardly any other objects; it is a portrait of a single rock.