More about me
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
For those who would like to know more about the blogger (me)………
I am a big part of my paintings……so look for me there. I paint ideas. All of my abstract paintings express a particular idea that wants to be released into a world of other ideas.
Sometimes I paint music. I don’t paint to music. I do like to hear music playing while I paint but that would be listening to music as a background enjoyment. Painting music is different. It is not painting to the beat and rhythm of sounds (music). It is painting the sounds of music appearing in my mind as visual shapes, colors and textures floating in their own individual layers. The music I see is what I paint.
IS THIS AS WIERD AS IT SOUNDS? PROBABLY, BUT THERE ARE EXPLANATIONS. I have the gift of Synesthesia (a combination of senses) that allows me to see the music I hear and hear music in what see.
For years I have realized that my interest and appreciation of music was way out of the norm in far too many ways. I have hardly any music memory. Music flows through my consciousness as a nowness experience.
I have always wanted to hold on to melodies, freeze them in time———appreciate their existence and look at their beauty——— before they are whisked away to another dimension.
With much experimentation, patience and inspiration I have come up with my own way of presenting music as a visual art. Here is one example.
Symphony Snippet (Stravinsky)
