Tag Archives: Emotional
Just Once I’d Like to Punch the Bad Guy
“Entre Deux” by Ben Neill
Inspired by Ben Neill’s new album Horizonal. I see a “conversation” that gets closer over the time of listening.
Quote by Composer/Musician Ben Neill
“It’s fascinating how well you captured the essence of Entre Deux, which hangs proudly in my office. I always thought of Entre Deux as a conversation which you represented visually.”
Please listen: https://soundcloud.com/benneill/entre-deux
Did I say Too Much?
Can’t put it back once said. Because I see all sound, I see the words I say with color, texture and in a landscape.
Summer Heat
Because I “see” temperature and I don’t like the oppressive layers of moist summer heat, I feel squashed.
Keeping My Balance on One Leg
“How Long Can I Keep My Balance Before I Fall Into Infirmity?” Silk on linen, with linen cord, metallic and cotton floss and thread 24″x36″
For all of us Baby Boomers, Infirmity is real!
I was talking with a 60-something friend about his health issues this morning, and this fell out of my pens.
So far I am the pink dancer, but watching friends and family age, I can anticipate a probable future. And I always experience pain as very sharp. I can only balance on one leg for so long, no matter how much I exercise, how strong my core is, or how much healthy food I eat.
Il Sogno: Catania, Campania & Lucca
9.5”x8.5”
This is a cover for an Artist Book I designed prior to our trip to Italy in 2013. We made this visit to my nine Italian composer/musician friends who lived in Catania, Campania or Lucca, and who created the music that was my soundtrack of healing when I was very ill in 2009. This poem by Tagore and the five drawn color variations of the hand sewn cover, are included in the Book.
The eternal Dream
Is borne on the wings of ageless Light
That rends the veil of the vague
And goes across Time
Weaving ceaseless patterns of Being.
The mystery remains dumb,
The meaning of this pilgrimage,
The endless adventure of existence –
Whose rush along the sky
Flames up into innumerable rings of paths,
Till at last knowledge gleams out from the dusk
In the infinity of human spirit,
And in that dim-lighted dawn
She speechlessly gazes through the break in the mist
At the vision of Life and Love
Emerging from the tumult of profound pain and joy.
Tagore
September 16, 1929
Love on a Summer Bench in Sol Major
This grew out of the bubbling ebullience I feel contemplating my love for my husband. The final name for this piece was given to it by our dear friend, Tony Lawson, a composer and musician.
Still Life (with Apricot, Almonds, and Tomatoes) (2012)
14”x10.5”
After a week spent with my elderly mother and her growing dementia, I needed to create a newly quiet, meditative space for myself, and did so through this work.
Where Am I Going? What Shall I Choose? (2011)
9”x11.5”
This was the most compulsive piece that I have ever made, begun on the very first day of my retirement. In my impulse to create on the spot, I simply cut up three old pieces of silk clothing and sewed them together. I am the person on the right side, looking backwards toward the left, at my skills, passions and my undeveloped hopes and dreams.
Living Out Loud: The Art of Geri Hahn 