This started out as a very dark piece, in more of a Rembrandt style, but with the pandemic, I wanted to flush the work with a deep, rich blue. I began doing scribbling in the background which would be akin to the thoughts and musing of the subject, and I ended up having her surrounded in her own swirling thoughts. I used historical pigments and techniques used by Rembrandt for the figure, and more of a contemporary approach for the background.