Futura Femme: A Symphony in Neon

Futura Femme is a portrait drawn in light instead of paint. A woman faces you from a black background, her whole figure traced in glowing turquoise lines. She wears a rounded helmet with two large ear pieces, like headphones, and her eyes sit in shadow beneath its rim.

Up close the lines turn into detail. Fine threads run over the helmet like veins in a leaf. Thin cables hang from it to her shoulders. On one side the turquoise gives way to pink: along her cheek, down one arm and across her chest. A small streak of rainbow colours crosses her cheek, the only place where all the colours meet.

The atmosphere is cool and electric, yet her expression is calm. To me the symphony in the title is what she is hearing. The headphones, the cables and the fine lines read like sound made visible, and she stands still in the middle of it, listening.

On a wall the symmetrical pose and the black ground make the lines glow like a neon sign. It may recall nights with headphones on and the lights off, or an early love of electronic music and stories about the future. The vaporwave turquoise and pink stand out on dark or grey walls. It fits a music room, a home office, a living room, a gaming room or a studio.