Electric Garden and More New Works
I’m interested in synesthesia- hearing color and seeing sound or more simply stated the transference of senses. For example, when we hear Debussy we might visualize the paintings of Monet and when we see Monet we might hear Debussy’s music…etc.
For almost every piece of music, pictures form in the mind. The history of art and the history of music are one and the same- for every art movement- there is corresponding music that goes with it.
It’s also interesting to hear how older music can be used in new ways such as the use of Beethoven and Strauss in Stanley Kubrick movies. Hitchcock and Lynch were also masters of the use of music to instill deeper visual content related to emotion.
Many of the pieces in this show were done over months- even years- others were done in a shorter time span. I basically use two different working methods within my creative process. While they are choreographed, those done over longer time spans are not directed; I try to let them paint themselves. Since there is more paint utilized via layering process, they tend to have more texture and appear sculptural.
The others are done with longer spans of time only devoted to them in a shorter amount of calendar time.
I’m interested in forming images in the viewer’s mind enough so that the viewer is a participant in the content of the piece. Hopefully, for example, more organic pieces that seem to elicit organic plant life are not actually paintings of plants, but the viewer turns them into that. In the same way more rectilinear ones might suggest the human construct.
All above said, I’m against interpretation and prefer for the viewer to decide what it all means, to them and for them.
Emotional content is the ultimate goal.
Best, TC
July, 2024
I’m interested in synesthesia- hearing color and seeing sound or more simply stated the transference of senses. For example, when we hear Debussy we might visualize the paintings of Monet and when we see Monet we might hear Debussy’s music…etc.
For almost every piece of music, pictures form in the mind. The history of art and the history of music are one and the same- for every art movement- there is corresponding music that goes with it.
It’s also interesting to hear how older music can be used in new ways such as the use of Beethoven and Strauss in Stanley Kubrick movies. Hitchcock and Lynch were also masters of the use of music to instill deeper visual content related to emotion.
Many of the pieces in this show were done over months- even years- others were done in a shorter time span. I basically use two different working methods within my creative process. While they are choreographed, those done over longer time spans are not directed; I try to let them paint themselves. Since there is more paint utilized via layering process, they tend to have more texture and appear sculptural.
The others are done with longer spans of time only devoted to them in a shorter amount of calendar time.
I’m interested in forming images in the viewer’s mind enough so that the viewer is a participant in the content of the piece. Hopefully, for example, more organic pieces that seem to elicit organic plant life are not actually paintings of plants, but the viewer turns them into that. In the same way more rectilinear ones might suggest the human construct.
All above said, I’m against interpretation and prefer for the viewer to decide what it all means, to them and for them.
Emotional content is the ultimate goal.
Best, TC
July, 2024
