Author Archives: david

Isolation

I recently returned from a two-week trip to Santa Fe where I reconnected with old friends and had the chance to see some of the changes that have taken place there since I left for Marfa almost 6 years ago … Continue reading

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Hearing Color

Over coffee with my friend Martha she mentioned a headline she had seen for an article The man who hears colour on the BBC website. The article is about artist Neil Harbisson1, a color-blind artist, for whom Adam Montandon2 created … Continue reading

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Progressions Part Three

This is the third part of a series of posts on the three mediating proportions – arithmetic, geometric and harmonic – and my playing with the idea of mapping the latter of these to my next body of work, working … Continue reading

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Progressions Part Two

This is the second part of my musings on connections between music and color which started here. I left off with the arithmetic progression. Now for the second of the three: Geometric. Again, this is a three-term proportion where a … Continue reading

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Progressions

My attempts to determine whether or not a rational basis exists for my intuition of a relationship between color and music led me back to Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry, a book I first read about a decade ago, specifically chapter … Continue reading

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