Inspiration: Singularity

I often find the simplest designs are some of the most striking, easiest to match to an outfit or look.  This means they are often the ones I wear the most.  Growing up, I identified as a rock chick or goth and black remains my go to colour for clothing.  Now, it's more about the fact it makes a really good background for bright colours than identifying myself with a particular culture....  I also love silver jewellery more than gold.  So black and silver is a match made in heaven to me.  Striking, classy and easy to wear...  So singularity pairs up a couple of my absolute favourites.

Matte and frosted beads give a beautiful softness.  Matte black beads swallow the light and appear blacker than opaque black beads.  There are black paints now that almost absorb all light that hits them.  Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of light.  This paint is licences to Anish Kapoor and is not available to other artists but it has been used on a BMW concept car and watches by H. Moser & Cie.  It is however highly toxic, cannot be taken across borders, has to be applied and sealed in a lab, has a tendency to get very hot and is also phenomenally expensive....

Stuart Semple was incensed that one artists had managed to monopolize the world's blackest and black and has been vocal about it ever since.  He first released PINK, the world's pinkest pink and all buyers had to sign saying they were not associated with Anish Kapoor and in no way would the paint be able to fall into his hands.  He later released Better Black, then Black 2.0 and most recently Black 3.0, which are all  considerably cheaper than Vantablack and available to everyone (except Anish Kapoor).  You can read more about that story here! 

I called this design because there is just one stripe, it's a singular stripe, so singularity seemed perfect.  It also really appeals to the science geek in me...  A singularity is what exists at the centre of a black hole, it's a point where matter becomes infinitely dense.  It has a wierd affect on time....  Light can not escape from a black hole...  So it suits the matte black of the beads.

The silver stripe reminds me of a horizon and black holes had a special type of horizon, an event horizon.  This is the boundary beyond which any object or light can not escape from the black hole.  Stephen Hawking found that blackholes do emit some radiation though and he believed that as pairs of particles and anti-particles hit the event horizon, one of the two would be reflected and escape the black hole.  Light has even been observed shooting out of a blackhole now.  

Honestly, I don't think we understand them too well...  It's hard to really understand something so hard to observe...

Singularity images were hard to find on pinterest.  I did learn that BTS had a song by that name though.  I also learnt there is a Marvel character called Singularity.