DRAWING:
My process begins with cartography. I plant things in my "urban" garden. I photograph the yard from many different angles each season, as I move mounds & transplant the terrain. I study & map portions of the yard, carefully examining vegetation & how light & shadow play. The maps I make generate a new topography each season. The roots of this project and many others have been developed over the course of the last 10 or so years. The first seed was planted in a previous project called "Dear Glenn Gould." I obsessively listened to Gould's "Goldberg Variations: The Well Tempered Clavier." The drawings are a visual "counterpoint" They are layered visual information, producing an imagined time lapse view / code of a world.
"It is hard to write a beautiful song. It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal structures that create each of the voices separately must contribute to the emergent structure of the polyphony, which in turn must reinforce and comment on the structures of the individual voices. The way that is accomplished in detail is...'counterpoint'"
- John Rahn (BA, Diploma, MFA, Ph.D) is Professor of Music Composition and Music Theory, and Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Washington.
SOUND:
Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870-893
My process begins with cartography. I plant things in my "urban" garden. I photograph the yard from many different angles each season, as I move mounds & transplant the terrain. I study & map portions of the yard, carefully examining vegetation & how light & shadow play. The maps I make generate a new topography each season. The roots of this project and many others have been developed over the course of the last 10 or so years. The first seed was planted in a previous project called "Dear Glenn Gould." I obsessively listened to Gould's "Goldberg Variations: The Well Tempered Clavier." The drawings are a visual "counterpoint" They are layered visual information, producing an imagined time lapse view / code of a world.
"It is hard to write a beautiful song. It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal structures that create each of the voices separately must contribute to the emergent structure of the polyphony, which in turn must reinforce and comment on the structures of the individual voices. The way that is accomplished in detail is...'counterpoint'"
- John Rahn (BA, Diploma, MFA, Ph.D) is Professor of Music Composition and Music Theory, and Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Washington.
SOUND:
Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870-893
