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firelord-frowny · 2 years

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i had to write an ~artist's statement~ today to describe my identity/purpose as an artist and apparently i accidentally on purpose wrote a bomb-ass ~free verse~ poetic masterpiece in and of itself

My art is a lot like my mind - vast, far-reaching, and yes, unfocused. But not unfocused like a distracted kindergartener - unfocused like an impressionist painting, or the shimmering reflection of a lakeside town backlit by a summer sunset. My favorite things to see and hear and evoke in my work are things that are best viewed from afar: Thunderstorms that I chronicle with photographs of their development from start to finish - the lightning as it approaches, the shelf cloud rolling in, the way the cumulonimbus clouds blur into pale smudges as the rain begins, and then if I’m lucky, the rainbow and sun rays at the end of it all. The wonders of deep space captured in whimsical prose about my alien clone who lives 444 lightyears away in the Pleiades Cluster, or the Andromeda galaxy’s spiral arms reaching out in friendship. Whether I’m exploring the world through my musical, written, or visual arts, my ultimate goal is always the same: To bring my audience along with me to an exact place and time in the universe. Read my prose and envision the depth of deep space viewed from a frozen winter night in a small town on Earth. See my artwork and imagine the autumn landscape surrounding a pair of cedar waxwings. Wrap yourself up cozy and warm in my knitted blanket and know that it’s meant to keep you comfy in a log cabin on a chilly evening somewhere in Appalachia.

My art is - for myself and hopefully for my audience - a respite from the up-close, now-right-now, loud, concrete, grayness of everyday suburban and urban life in America. An oasis of dark skies with all their star clusters and nebulae, mountain ranges with their valleys and rivers, and the sounds of only those things that would still remain even if humankind and everything we created ever vanished from the universe.

#also its not lost on me that whenever i'm asked to describe my artistic identity #music often gets left out entirely #not sure why that is bc i love music obviously lmao #i think maybe it's because most of the people who ask me about that kind of stuff aren't classical musicians #and when i do talk about my music i often use HELLA specialized vocabulary #that would make the substance inaccessible to general audiences #i know i use kinda specialized vocabulary when i talk about space and nature as well but #i feel like a person is more likely to be able to infer the meanings of those terms #in context #than to infer the meaning of ''sliding into harmony like a tritone that dissolves into a minor 6th'' lmao #''the turbulence in my heart settling into a natural harmonic''#''finding solace in the shining rays of a major 10th''

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