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Spanning the Chasm
Between Music, Poetry, Ideas, and the Visual Experience |
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Inner Flight Heading Out: I was a musician and private poet when the mandala appeared from nowhere. I took it as a sign that I should abandon my academic pursuit of art history and somehow strike out as an artist, although just exactly how I was not sure. I considered musical composition but ended up pursuing architectural design. See Architecture and Furniture. |
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Tabula Rasa Translation into visual patterns of a personal poem that had already been translated into music |
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Wood Sculpture I Translation of William Blake's Sunflower first into rhythms and then into visual motifs. See Camarillo Project |
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Wood Sculpture II The equivalent of Hammurabi's Code for the Camarillo Project |
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Blake's Space Visual search for meaning in a poem. See Camarillo Project |
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Lemonade in the Library Breaking the pattern of typical textiles |
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Listening to Strings by Phillip Glass Expressing a repetitive musical style |
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Haiku Making the everyday poetic and like music in that it flows forward in time (reads right to left as in traditional Japanese text). Uses a French curve (a drafting tool) and rectangles of color |
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My Glass of Water Making reading the visual image through layers of colored Mylar simulate the sensation of looking through ice cubes in a glass of water, as expressed in the poem |
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Listening to Oasis Expressing a free floating musical style |