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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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The closed circle and the infinite spiral
Working on a new body of work based on the secondary and tertiary colors in color theory (working title Seconds and Thirds), I had a spontaneous thought those colors seemed to correspond to thirds and fifths in music. I mentioned … Continue reading
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Practice
Painting is always fresh. I have painted since I was a kid and yet here I am almost 50 years later still learning about paint, and still engaged. I strive to master technique, but do not believe I will ever … Continue reading
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