Art is Love

Lately I’ve been listening to folk music 🎶 It started when I was invited to a dear friend’s home for a party and they had hired Anne Hills to perform. And I was blown away!

There’s something about the human voice, when accompanied to guitar strings that resonates with me. Literally. I’m able to think, when I’m not being jarred by percussions and heavy base notes. There’s a subtleness that’s not invasive. I can be in the studio, immersed in my painting’s brushstrokes, being there and somehow miss the entire song!

And then, as if gently awakened, I realize that I missed the entire chorus line! Which if you know me, is the only part of the song that I can remember to sing along. So then I must stop painting and replay the song, because I want to hear it and sing. So I hit repeat, the intro to the song begins to play, and I start painting and the song ends again, without me chiming in, because I’ve done it again. I’ve missed the chorus of the song!

I find it entertaining, humorous even that I can be so deeply engrossed in my work, that my ear refuses to do it’s job, to hear. Usually during my slow days, the in between days of not being able to be outdoors and wanting to be out and a about.

Next year will be different, for the first time I’m booked up. I’m not looking at my schedule because it’ll overwhelm me, but I’m happy because being busy means I won’t be bored. Being busy means I’m well, and that’s a good thing.

Because it translates into painting, which means I’m listening to music. And lately I’ve been enraptured by folk music.

Today it will be Labi Siffre, last night it was Joan Armatrading, Jodi Mitchell and yesterday, well I already told you, yesterday was Anne Hills.

Who has written to me, more than ance! Her letters begin “Oh my Dee” and just like that, my breath is taken away, she caught my heart. And I’m reminded just how much human connection matters, her music soothes me. And then, there I am “smiling as tears go by”.

SOL🥰

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