People Are Strange.

                             ..written by The Doors--another great song that captures me as I capture it.

Everybody is a Star

         Sly Stone's beautiful words and music, my voice and video.

Holiday

To be the embodiment of a holiday.  What's not magic about that? This song was written by Barry and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.

Wearing my Love Like Heaven.

Donovan's music is pure magic to me.  The message of his song, Wear Your Love like Heaven, captures all that I am through the colors that I wear, to the ways that I send love out into the world.

Rainy Days and Mondays: Another Song Close to my Heart.

There are certain songs that capture the highs and lows of my soul's condition so perfectly for me that I'm able to become one with them.  Rainy Days and Mondays was written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, and was originally performed by The Carpenters.  In speaking the language of painting through both video and vocal form, I'm able to capture my own unique experience of Rainy Days and Mondays.  Listen, watch, and enjoy.

                         Brian Wilson's music is speaking to me today.  My heart cries out through his song.

The Challenge of Presentation

     This blog is rooted in work that I've been doing for a three week intensive painting class.
     The class finished rather abruptly though, and the elements of my final presentation didn't come together in the way that I wanted them to.  I did an installation ritual for our class outside of MassArt.  The ritual in and of itself was beautiful, but time, space and class requirements bogged the whole thing down.  I surrounded the area in which I was installing with picnic tables for people to sit at, which boxed the class in.  Hearing peoples' impressions was interesting until dogmatic thinking reared its head, boxing me in.  Then time constraints kept me from having a fuller dialogue with anyone.  I tried to include this blog, but the sun's glare darkened my laptop screen.
     The whole thing was anticlimactic and irritating, so I resolved never to do it again.  If I'm
going to include people in these rituals, it has to be organic, circumstantial, or not at all.