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Wassily Kandinsky described composition as being two-fold: "the whole, and the parts, subordinated to the whole."
One of my long standing fascinations has been with exploring, by way of doing, the possibility/need to "have" a painting (still or "animated") in which there would be hardly any possibility to clearly differentiate between a "figure" and a "ground."
To see/experience/paint a visual world that would not present "only" the usual static positive/negative space, but rather an "a-dimentional" or better yet, "equivocal" space.
My days are filled with music, either I listen to music as I work, or I work to/for/from/with specific music (for the past few years, most of my "film" work has somewhat taken place in the field of "Visual Music").
Recently, I was listening to the radio when the "Soave Sia Il Vento" trio came on (from act 1 of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte"). I was struck by how much this music seemed to make manifest that which I have been longing for for so long.
So as is so often the case, I received that encounter with gratitude, dug out my "Cosi fan Tutte" CDs (the Schwarzkopf/Merriman/Otto/Simoneau/Panerai/Bruscantini/Philharmonia/von Karajan version), found the trio, and went about doing the sketch presented here.
I have listened to this trio for decades, but this time, it feels like I finally "heard" it (listening with one's eyes is an experience I am very grateful for).
I wish "my" images could reach the same depth as Mozart's music, but I am afraid that my patron saint is likely Antonio Salieri...
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