Let's be students and let's take it seriously but let's also have a little fun
Do you ever dream of words and sentences? I do, sometimes, and my favourite dream so far this century featured these:
1. Various Vortexes
2. The Golden Rectangle
3. The fish who wins will dream of ______s and ______s
I can’t imagine what those blanks and blanks might be, but I’d also like to tell you this:
Upon waking, I scrawled those sentences on a paperscrap, and commanded myself:
“Pip forward like the petals from a flower’s heart”
and then I answered: “Pip pip pip”
and then I wiggled to the kitchen for a waterglass, and drank it, and then I said the same thing I’ve been saying since I was a child every time I’ve ever guzzled water:
“Glug glug glug I’m a fish on the loose”
and then I sat down on the sofa and wondered briefly if my foremost problem is too much coffee or not enough, and then I told myself:
“Talk normally”
and then I answered:
“Good morning, baby beak”
And connected in a cozy confluence:
but also
or even
Then, I made this oily miniature in the middle of the night and showed it to you proudly
There may be no perspective in my art, but there is plenty in my heart! Anyhow, this 8x10” oil painting on canvas is available and can be acquired directly from my spiffy webhouse:
Small Birdsongs - Mercantile Division
As I age and possibly mature, certain painters delight me more than they used to, e.g., Richard Diebenkorn and Chaim Soutine, or if it’s music — Martinu and Piston, but Schnittke scares me more than ever.
Speaking of Schnittke, I would like to propose an experiment:
Listen to the music of Alfred Schnittke, particularly his string quartets, ideally on headphones. It doesn’t really matter if you’re sitting on your sofa or walking through the city, but allow that scary Schnittke to ensconce your ears and even your encephalon, really take that Schnittke in! Here’s the upshot: if Schnittke’s music doesn’t scare you, I don’t have an alternative prescription!!
P.S. Obviously “Schnittke” is one of those fun names to gratuitously utter, and you know me, I can get a little pesky now and then, but in my fashion and whenever possible, I try to help instead of hinder. Thank you and good night!