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Ladder of Sound , January 15, 2010Creativity was the great liberation for me. As I learned to create with words, art, and music I found that I could go anywhere my heart wanted to. I was free to do things and say things that "human" reality restricted me from doing. I felt like I was liberated from gravity, time and space. I could visualize. If I wanted to make sound a visual experience, I was free to do this. If I wanted to make music with color in a painting, there was nothing that could stop me. "Ladder of Sound" represents the sounds rising from the creek before me. They rise up from the rocks and go tumbling up into the air like a ladder I can ascend upon. Sound has become different for me from what it meant back there before all of this. As I meditate and remember an experience, I sense the presence of sound as a visual experience. When I look at Native American artifacts, like the pottery and paintings from Ancient Mexico, scenes of humans speaking are found with objects coming from their months. The explanation is that this indicates that the person is speaking. Knowing that other people in other places depict sound as a visual element doesn't surprise me. I suspect that very young children can see sound, but over time they outgrow this stimuli. I watch toddlers as someone is talking and it is like they are looking at the words coming out of the person's mouth and flying up into the air. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Oliver Loveday © 052811:1:30am EDT "Ladder of Sound" On April 26, 2016, I began the task of doing a series of watercolor paintings based upon the sketches from the "Tunnel Vision Tapes". The process involved using charcoal to sketch out the lines from the pencil sketch. The goal is to get as close as I can to those original lines within a few minutes. Then I would go over the charcoal with an eraser to smudge and push the charcoal into the watercolor paper. After documenting the charcoal, I would take the painting outdoors and work on it with watercolor paint. The next day I would do a second session with each painting. Using the "dry brush" technique on the previous session would increase the luster, richness of the colors already down, and add more color to areas as needed. While the original sketches are not for sale, these works are available by credit card via PayPal. To see detail photographs of the paintings, click the photograph to go to the watercolor page it is presented on. |
