MEDIUMS:

Glass

Screens and candle lanterns (tokonoma lanterns)

Polyglot candle lanterns

 

Canvas

Shelter Series

Song Stills (Figurative, visual songs)

 

Paper

Calligraphy

Song Stills:

Fun with Synaesthesia

The paintings in my Song-Still series correspond to various songs I have written and recorded.

If you think that music and poetry are different things, then songwriting is an inter-disciplinary art because it uses both disciplines. It is also synaesthetic – where different senses or ways of perceiving blend together.

For example, sound engineers, artists, and producers use words like “bright” and “crisp” to describe sound. Ananya (left) evokes the sonic textures of the fully orchestrated and recorded song. So the painting has yellow with hard edges to depict the crisp and choppy guitar rhythm.

(hear the Ananya song “Tumbleweed”)

The paintings below depict the songs as written on acoustic guitar.

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Maria (song still for "Tear"). 2002. Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 18".