Newt's Diagram overlaid on the finished painting
The old iron railing corresponds well with the earliest flat part of the industrial revolution S curve. The other parts are not so content related as they run up his arm and shoulder. The future part trails off into the clouds, a customary symbol of "the future". I had to make up the sky and clouds to conform to my idea without it appearing that I had forced some unnatural shape into the sky.
I put he Speaker's head is smack in the middle of the box because it is his concept and he is very much "into it".
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