Music - an edited extract from my painting diary
10/02/05
A musician or composer starts a piece with an over all impression of the mood and flow, this is the image I choose to paint. He or she then starts with one instrument and gets it to do one thing, a little tune or a few bars… a line and the series it sits in. Another instrument is laid on top of the first and you have the next line and its series. Vibrating deep, gentle, earthy and strong is the base line… this is the overall breath of the picture, its rhythm, the underlying guide for each series which gives the painting an optical character, a continuity throughout the picture… just as Blues differentiates from Drum & Bass by the rhythms and the freedom or independence of each line / instrument in its regularity, repetition and relation to the whole. I would like to do more free jazz paintings…. Could look like a mess though.
A really good rapper, Mr Lif for example , an excellent poet, lays down brilliant imagery and emotions, stories, splintered fractals of visions, whose message is carried directly in the words and operates deeper as the listener / viewer catches the message, picture and are washed over with other imagery, visions not quite caught because the eye slides onwards to the next neighborhood of lines and series, goats, monsters and landscapes. Painting.
The important thing about the music I refer to and my paintings is that they are a-live, real, honest and fresh, no chance to correct, a clear statement reflecting my state of mind at the moment of painting, like the DJ cutting two tracks together or rapper live creating music right up in front of the crowd… aiming at excellence, now, and the personal roller coaster to get there… similar to the viewer who rolls and flips, trips through a painting of their own imagery and selfness… at the moment of viewing.
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