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Looking back on my installation, Color Says, at the Da Vinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia…

Glad to have had my first solo show of my yet-to-be-titled, in progress, retelling in color of a used paperback mystery, and the other work it inspired!

Other reasons to be glad/happy/pleased/amused/surprised/enlightened/inspired (not in any particular order):

If I stood in the center of the room and spun around, the colors would  circle around me like friends

It was an installation! Paintings on the wall, frames, display case, video, artist's book, torn used paperback cover, painted paperback page, and music

An original composition

Video with my original composition

A bench

The red page (the seed)

The four sections of the Untitled used paperback in-progress that had come apart displayed in a case (for me).  Special. "Be tender" it says.

The color dispersed in the space creating its own air, along with the music. 

The space held the art and music. Was art itself.

Questions:

Did visitors view the installation through the title, Color Says? Not a scientific poll, but only one comment to me personally mentioned that it offered her a different way to look at color. (If anyone reading this blog post, has a comment, I would enjoy reading it.)

As the book is in-progress, and as I am hoping to have a future show centered on it, how do I envision it?

What do I hope viewers take away?

What would I like people to understand?

Understandings common, new, and old ones expanded:

Altering the used mystery paperback is an act I care about. I more deeply embrace that process.

How readings of words, color, music, actions, etc., are unique and unstable/transitory/abstract.

How each color and its various factors depend on its neighbors.

I see my art as investigations. The initial thrill: Answering questions like “What if?”.

I’m okay with work that doesn’t quite meet my expectations. I’m more interested in “testing” an idea than making a “masterpiece”.

I like the idea of installations. I see that as a more complete way of showing your concept, your art.

I love composing music and including it along with other creative practices.

Color is sound is words is space. It speaks.

Go to YouTube for a virtual tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS_4NQK_1Jw

Go to Musescore.org to hear original score Furrowed: https://musescore.com/user/37972497/scores/7077384