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Music affects our emotional experience and elicits diverse responses. “Spectre” is a visualization of lyrics from a placid song, with a haunting melody, that speaks to love, longing, and loss. Its inclusion supports what I am attempting to say visually and helps place the listener into a shared emotional space. The painting provides the environment. Alone, it is expansive and melancholic but the audio immerses one into that environment and evokes, providing another dimension for the viewer’s experience.
This painting is a visualization of lyrics to the song Wildfire, a song from 1975 about the memory (or ghosts) of a girl and her horse. I’d listen to it frequently as I made my daily 35-minute drive to see Ziggy. It is also the song I was playing as I pulled into the Atlanta barn having hauled him from Houston, TX from the rescue organization where I adopted him in 2003.
I used kitchen spatulas, large household paint brushes, and a paint roller brush to create the varied textures in this painting.
Dispatches from the Liminal Bathroom
Dispatches from the Liminal Bathroom is a newsletter for anyone who loves paintings, strange spaces, weird monologues, and the occasional sideways glimpse into the creative process. This is where my paintings meet the fieldnotes and monologues that orbit them — thoughts that surface sideways, like signals from another room.
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Subscribing means stepping into a slower rhythm — new works, reflections on process, fieldnotes, odd transmissions, and low-key rebellions. Sometimes glimpses from the studio. Sometimes a pattern that only reveals itself when you stay in the portal a little longer.
There’s no urgency here. Just a threshold where art unfolds, and the writing follows. You’re welcome to stay as long as you like.
