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People have asked me how I arrived at my ideas about color and music and what inspired me to spend so much time on this project. So I here we go. A lot of this material is covered in my book IF C IS RED, with many illustrations, but this is a more personal story.
My mother was the youngest of three sisters. The oldest played the organ and painted, the second had a beautiful singing voice and painted. My mother, although she played the piano and sang, never felt she measured up to her older sisters. She had two unhappy marriages, and although she finally married someone who was just right for her, most of my time growing up was spent trying to cheer her up. She was thrilled that I showed some talent at painting. I was pretty much a failure at playing the piano however. Is it any wonder then that I ended up trying to make art out of music? This was certainly not a conscious decision but it does seem like a probable underlying motive.
My mother was the youngest of three sisters. The oldest played the organ and painted, the second had a beautiful singing voice and painted. My mother, although she played the piano and sang, never felt she measured up to her older sisters. She had two unhappy marriages, and although she finally married someone who was just right for her, most of my time growing up was spent trying to cheer her up. She was thrilled that I showed some talent at painting. I was pretty much a failure at playing the piano however. Is it any wonder then that I ended up trying to make art out of music? This was certainly not a conscious decision but it does seem like a probable underlying motive.
I love music and really had a strong longing to make color sing in the same way that music makes sound sing. The more I thought about this, the more it seemed to me that if color were arranged in the same way that notes are, that might be possible. So I began by constructing a color keyboard.
to be continued.....
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