MORE ABOUT ME
Just so you will know whose blog you are reading ………here are bits of info:
The most important information I can give you is that I am in my paintings……so look for me there. I paint ideas. All of my abstract paintings express a particular conceptual idea that I want to release into the world of other ideas.
FAskedQ: What kind of painting are you doing right now?
FAnswered Q: I paint music. I don’t paint to music. Meaning than I am not painting to the beat and rhythm of sounds (music). When I hear music the sounds appear as visual shapes, colors and textures in layers. That 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 I 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. As I hear music it flows through my consciousness as a nowness experience. At the same time that the sounds are recognized I see shapes, colors, forms, texture as layers floating in their own individual space.
IT GETS MORE WIERD: I have always been distracted by the words in songs and would turn off music when the singing began.
As I listen, the voice (as words) tend to overpower the colorful beauty of musical sounds. The argument is that singing is music also.
In my world instrumental music and vocal music each have their place……… just not together or at the same time.
I have always wanted to just ———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.
Symphony Snippet (Stravinsky)
mixed media on film
image size 8″ x 11″
framed size 22″ x 18″
© Jane Denison 2009
