Musings

In order to gather my thoughts for my next writing assignment, I have decided to add a post on my blog. I find it difficult to find other artist's work who I appreciate and look at as an example. While Impressionism has played a major role in my stylistic development, I find I am not inspired by the artist's themselves (if that makes any sense). I suppose a fascination with light travels alongside contemporary life. I am fascinated by technology and the power it gives me as an artist.

So where do I draw my artistic inspiration from? It has come from my complete infatuation with music. Music has driven my creativity beyond a doubt. I often find that music helps me generate a moving image in my mind's eye, which, in turn, I try to distill into a still and two-dimensional image on paper. Often times this translation of a moving image fails on paper. It is inherently too complex to make a reality, which is also why I believe I find film to be an awesome creative outlet. The movement of music creates a movement of images within my imagination.

So what kind of music do I enjoy? My immediate answer is "all kinds, it depends on my mood." But closer to the truth is that I only really prefer Trance and Progressive music. The repetition and energy of this genre is much more easily transcribed into a two-dimensional and static image.

So as I sit listening to A State of Trance Weekly Radio Show, and specifically to Tritonal's Crash into Reason (Moonbeam Remix) featuring Cristina Soto, for the thousandth time, I find myself easily moved to start creating an image inspired by this song. It begins with a subject. This one is easy to identify because there is a female voice. I place a woman as the subject of the drawing. Her voice becomes a color, a reddish pink for reflecting a longing that reverberates in her voice. She is longing for someone. Her thoughts become lustful as she muses about her companion. Of course this feeling is sexual, so she must appear seductive to the viewer.

The rest of the image I leave up to the viewer to decipher. Enjoy