While “a picture may be worth 1000 words” often the meaning in visual art sometimes gets lost in interpretation. Writing both for song and prose helps clarify interpretation. Still while intentional meaning for me is important, a deeper meaning, of which I may not be fully aware can at times reveal itself in the story, song lyrics, or visual art. Music, even without lyrics, can also be the catalyst for the deeper meaning, which helps not only in defined areas of art in the creative process, but in life itself. Music I believe today is often underused, misused, and misunderstood for its healing and psychological potential.
I view my paintings as illustrations for my fiction stories and songs. Then again, words can be an illustration of visual images.
Example of songs
http://www.futureofanimals.com/music.htm
Example of writing:
She is her father’s child and her mother is the river. She believes her father too believed in the river goddess. When she asks if there existed a river goddess he didn’t say yes, but he also didn’t say there is not. Instead, he tells stories of the river goddess and the creatures of her kingdom. She listens and believes, but does not often speak of what she sees as their wisdom, because her mother doesn’t believe and her father doesn’t want to disagree.
Sometimes she wonders if her mother is really her mother. One time she even asks her father if her mother only assumed that role. He gives no answer. Instead, he tells how the sky and clouds birthed the river. He tells her that she appeared after the goddess of the river smiled. In his story the Goddess said, “I didn’t give you fins to swim the river or wings to fly above me but feet so you can carry the river where ever you go.”
When her father tells this story, just as he told all his stories, she sees in him all the rivers she can imagine. She closes her eyes and imagines her river as color indigo. For her when all the rivers in world came together, the water assumes that color, especially as he tells a story near a river or creek, which he often does. She feels closest to him when she hears his stories, watches the river with him or tells her what he knows about the river. At other times, he feels distant as if he goes somewhere else, somewhere off thinking about a river perhaps to find another story. She often imagines when he seems this way she wishes to travel with him.
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