Ex: I drank milk once in my life and it made me real sick, so for now on I will remember to unclude milk from my diet, like forever.
(this from a dictionary called Imaginationally that is a compilation of made up words written by Michael Bernard Loggins.)
There are somethings you can do by yourself but together with the help of some awesome people lies the possibility of truly creating something magical. Just the concept of welcoming and accepting another persons ideas is a hard concept for a lot of people. Especially when they are having to make a mental effort to actually coexist in most situations whether it is a group project for school, most jobs, one's neighbor, or political ideas. It's just hard to give up ones stance to compromise. Being an independent visual artist, I typically don't get to work with others too often unless I am working on a commission for someone. That is one of the many reasons musicians amaze me. They spend their careers living directly off of their ideas and passions, and even though that is such a personal concept they still manage to work together with different people. I have had many opportunities in my life to work for or around many different kinds of musicians. One of my favorite parts of their creative process is not only the end result, when they actually get preform, but the rehearsals that happen prior. There is this unspoken language they all share (no matter what genre), spoken mostly through body language and cues given through their instruments.
Recently, I discovered a little gem of a group called The Uncluded. a group compromised of Kimya Dawson one of the lead vocalists from the duet The Moldy Peaches, a band that I learned about around the time independent films like Napoleon Dynamite and Juno came out and Matthias Bavitz aka Aesop Rock, an amazing rapper from Northport, New York. They both have their own distinct sounds and come from pretty different genres. I wouldn't have imagined such a unique combination of rap and quirky folk music to morph into a sound so lovely. Something they do have in common though is their deep and dynamic lyrics. The video at the bottom of this blog post is of the two of them describing what inspired the album they created in detail. In this album they go over something we all have to deal with, death. Both of these individuals have experienced death and written about it in their own music, but share how even if one is are around other people the individual still has to go through the grieving process on their own. They both come from different musical backgrounds and come together to sing some seemingly lighthearted songs about a very heavy topic.
"Oh maker, you life taker" By Tiffany Holman (Acrylic and collage)
Here is another art piece of mine that I created based around this idea of life and death. I had a stretch of time where I felt the impact of how fragile this life really is. The reaper is holding his looming hands over a clock with the time a was born on it. I wanted to make something that reflected the journey one takes and had how important the little actions we make in our lives have on this world, good or bad.
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