This work is inspired by the song “Did You See The Moon Tonight” by jazz singer Janis Siegel.

The dominant orange occupies the center and heart of the composition. It is the sustained note, Siegel’s voice at the peak of its arc. The album *A Thousand Beautiful Things* reinterprets contemporary songs with Latin-style arrangements, and this dense orange conveys precisely that energy: something warm, rhythmic, and enveloping, illuminating everything around it just as the moon floods a nocturnal landscape.

The lower band belongs to the night. The deep purple on the left—almost indigo—is the color of the moon itself, that midnight blue evoked by the lyrics of the original song (“I’m the one who turned it white to blue”). It is the color of melancholic desire, of the absence of a loved one.