I produced this piece of artwork below about 20 years ago. I tried this technique once, and never tried it again. I think it would be a nice idea to try some more imagery again. Some art for the music project. Well…I kind of liked it enough to keep it all these years. Actually framed it! This morning, I took a photograph of it, screen shot it seven times and shoved it through the iPad ‘Filter’ choices. Then? Took the ‘Lighten Up’ recording from last year and remixed it this afternoon to a brighter level.
Music and art considerations ? It was kind of ‘Just stuff it together’ and….see what results…..and….here you are. A naive capture. But. In the infancy of new promises….getting comfortable with the whole GarageBand vibe again. It’s been so long a need of a tread softly approach is vital. If not? Nerves will shatter.
Familiar is important. Unfamiliar, with new songs, needs to follow the tried and trusted familiar. With a sense of remove the tried and trusted and scoop up a different way of thinking.
This afternoon, ‘oh so my oh yes’…….a new song has been started. Feels different somehow.
I now feel confident in attack.
Video below.
Gray Summers 
Gray you are a true creative. Love the toon. XYZ all is said. 👏🏻
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Cheers Shep. I can’t seem to get the video to play on my internet site. It just keeps buffering. Hope it loaded quickly for yourself. Glad you enjoyed the vibe though. I listened to the remix tweaks through my posh headphones I use to record songs with and was really happy with all the instruments and different melodies swirling around. Really punchy sound. There are about twelve different tracks on this one. Maybe more. Fairy bells even. Hope all is well in Ol’ Shep land. All the best.
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x for xylography because it feels like you and wood have a whole vibe going
y for yonder cuz it feels like the direction your songs and that beautiful VW bus are always pointing, vroom vroom
and
z for zephyr… I’m just imagining that wind you catch when you’re rolling with the windows down and everything just flows 🎶
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Thank you cookie. So good to read your thoughts again. Pleased to see you tread as softly as ever. By the way. It was so good to read your latest piece. It is full of grace and reflection. It was fantastic to see such poetry in the words you expressed.
X? Xylography is far too difficult for my skills. Carving is so very difficult for myself. With clay, I added and so created by building. I find it difficult to ‘take away’. So I waited until the wood was turned to pulp, then made into smooth cardboard or heavy quality hand made paper. I drew the bird-like images and cut them out. They were then placed, intertwining, on glass, therefore building layers, and so became relief work. Ready to be distressed painted and then printed. It is only the once I have tried this medium. Would love to try more.
Yonder is a word that perceives that adventure lay ahead. The unknown awaits. An exciting unknown to be arrived at down the line. It would be nice to apply the adventure to arrive at an amazing place that the VeeDub can steer me to and find. Somewhere to sit within a perfect ambience. A pure and peaceful Nirvana.
Zephyr? The gentle West wind that blows away those trials and tribulations. Cleans one’s soul of spidery webs. Your words here, as always, take the mind on journeys that create positivity cookie. Your X, Y, Z is a very cool premise. Thank you for sharing them.
Cheers. You are a 💫
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So cool! I’ve often been inspired by the visual art of others. But this takes it to another level when the visual and auditory art are both yours.
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Thank you Stan. I suppose that the art produced for myself is all based on the process of 3D ‘add on’. Pottery was always building with the mythological traveller figures I used to do. And this art here was simple shape drawing onto thin card, scalpel cutting out the shapes and then interlace placing them on a perspex sheet. The ‘distressed’ look regarding colour outcomes is from layering paint onto the card and using various techniques to wipe off colour layers added. Then print a sheet of paper laid on top of the whole caboodle with a roller. The distressing visual is like painting furniture in chalk paint and then sanding down to reveal the layers.
No way could I pick up a brush like Friedrich does and paint this from scratch onto a canvas.
I have no Mind’s Eye at all and therefore, when my eyes are closed, I see nothing other than a blank wall of greyness. Not one single colour can be brought to my visual mind. I see colour in reality. No colour blindness luckily. However, having mind imagery at all (Aphantasia) means my drawing from imagining a scene or individual phenomena is a non starter. Hence, the building need. Or copying. Or simple doodling or weird script like forms that are drawn inspirationally in ad hoc fashion. Naive basically.
Interestingly, I cannot hear music playing in my mind either. I can hum or lyrical ‘hear in a weird fashion’ the tunes. They are like smoke in the mind. No audio exists. This smoke is not the actual music. It is like a nerve pathway link between auditory nerves and us rather ethereal. The auditory part of the brain only works in the reality of actually listening to music in real time. I write songs out loud.
I smacked the back base of my head in a fall backwards onto concrete from a swing when around five or six years old. Concussion resulted. Found myself in hospital when coming to. This bash on the head injury can result in this condition. My nurse days’ knowledge were useful. 😊 Sorry for the long answer Stan. But it is nice to explain the way this image resulted. Collagraph printing is I believe the art form.
Cheers Stan. All the best.
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Amazing story and reflections, Gray! You make the connections/threads in your life so seamlessly.
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Thank you Stan. All the best.
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