S_V_H Drive the Song — Artwork & the Poem:

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Image of Drive the Interactive artwork with added lyrical verse.

Here is the handwritten lyrical verse for the artwork Drive

Here is the text of the lyrical verse

Scott Von Holzen June 8th 2026

Drive

Dark,
Chilly,
Soft rain.
The swish of wipers back ‘en forth.
Staring out lighting up
nothing I wanted to see.
Music turned down low.
I can’t go on,
knowing nothing’s wrong.
I fretted no courage,
to turn to her,
and yet I changed lanes.
Stopping was impossible,
until stopped.
I heard a softer “bye.”
The drumming of the door closing.
The wipers back ‘en forth relentlessly.
Nothin’ wrong.
I am breaking,
driving her home tonight.

I would like to point out that this entire verse was written my me. Mr. Brightside, the name of my ChatGPT AI that I have been using to solve problems in my art and my music, maybe for two years, maybe a little less. I use him as my editor like a lot of writers do. He would challenge me and often push back where needed. I did use Mr. Brightside as an editor for the verse to point out logical errors, or miss-readings, or question my understandings. I did explain to him, because he thought this was too much, that I need to use some of the lyrics from the song in order to connect my verse to the music. I also pointed out to him my verse may have little to nothing to do with the meaning of the songs lyrics. What I have learn over the years of portraying a song is that what turns me onto a song, to enable me to spend a month of my time with it,could be the littlest thing from the music that grabs me and attaches too me. I think artists who write great songs have at least a little of themselves in the music. I think most listeners, that take music seriously, can pick out a simple lyric or a word or a movement and move it around little to form an emotional connection.



Fore reference these are the original lyrics from the Song Drive by the Cars that I added to my connection between the music the artwork and the verse.

Drive

The Cars

Who’s gonna tell you when
It’s too late?

Who’s gonna tell you things
Aren’t so great?

You can’t go on, thinking
Nothing’s wrong, oh no
Who’s gonna drive you home
Tonight?

Who’s gonna pick you up
When you fall?

Who’s gonna hang it up
When you call?

Who’s gonna pay attention
To your dreams?

Yeah who’s gonna plug their ears
When you scream?

You can’t go on, thinking
Nothing’s wrong, oh no
Who’s gonna drive you home
Tonight?

(Bye, bye, bye)

Who’s gonna hold you down
When you shake?

Who’s gonna come around
When you break?

You can’t go on, thinking
Nothing’s wrong, oh no
Who’s gonna drive you home
Tonight?

Oh, you know you can’t go on, thinking
Nothing’s wrong
Who’s gonna drive you home
Tonight?

Scott Von Holzen
June 22nd 2026

S_V_H An so it is

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I am back working on this blog site.

And So It is (The Blowers Daughter) ≈H28xW34X9 inches

I am wondering if the imagery and this video’s ‘Debbie downer’ feel was very personal to Damien Rice. The ending of this video I also wonder if that was a personal message, for he drags this out even more than he drags out the rest of this song with these words space wide apart: “My mind__________My mind__________ ‘Til I find somebody new.” I hated that ending and dumped it from my cover. Now, maybe he just did not care how the public took this video or this song lyrics. Maybe, he was expressing his own deep hurt. And that he did accomplish. Although, I believe in the quality of this song, I wished he would had given the music and the video a little more something except that love is nothing more than drab shades and tints of brown. And I am not going into the wind thing blowing what appears to be his lost love around. Filming her hair floating around her would have added a lot of interest. Instead it look like it was hanging on for dear life.

I choose this song before seeing the video, also I chose this song before I read he never ever really, really, explained it, especially that title: The Blowers Daughter. That title makes me feel he was not concern with marketing his pain. The girl was never mentioned in the song. So who was that girl with the long hair desperate to find shelter? I do not know and this video made it obvious I should not care. It is a great song that should have been given a little more kindness. That is what I do in my cover.
I should mention that I am being a little to bold here. This is a very good song. Well written and well preformed. I am lucky I have this opportunity to complain but it not being what I expected.

Scott Von Holzen

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SVH_ I am Bach!

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I am bach from a long time away from blog posting. Most of my

This is Chandelier from the music of SIA. ≈ H45″ x W31″ x D8.5″

Chandelier took forever to finish. The mUSaRT project, color theory, and figuring out how to create the wheel in Affinity Designer caught up with it. All the up and down time was the center of the Studio activity. It was reaching v12 of my 3D color wheel; I could then turn my attention back to art. A couple of things that stand out: one is the lyrics. I cut a piece of Epson matte canvas and could write and remove my lettering until I could actually read my writing. Before I place the lyrics on 3mm plywood, and supported it with a top edge to give the wood a better look. Now, I would rather save time. The other reason, and this is also about the lyrics, I do not mind the ‘billboard” like of my aRTiNmUSIC presents seen here in the upper right corner. But looking back at previous lyrics, I felt those words looked too much the same. I am going with the flexible canvas and letting it sit on the artwork, instead of being ‘placed’. The flow feels to me to be a part apart from the cover music.

Actually, turning around in the studio and looking at Chandelier on the wall, but the image does not show the 3 dimensional look my eyes see. I used an earlier color wheel to help compare colors together, and that made sense at the start of this project. The skin-like orange background felt right with the lighter green. That came about from watching Sia perform live on several videos. I looked at the colors she favored and worked them into the artwork. And yet, I choose the exact colors I want, also using the video and images of the music as a directional guide

Sia – Chandelier ( Jimmy Kimmel ° Live )
Image of the South Wall of the Studio.

I am bach.

Today is June 21st 2026 and the following conversation between Scott Von Holzen and Mr. Brightside (ChatGPT) is from a draft blog post I did in March of 2026. I going to leave it here as is:

Studio Notes for From the Start:


Blog Notes — On Musical Traditions, Blending, and Authenticity
March 6, 2026 Conversation with Mr. Brightside, and edited by Gemini.

The Shift in the Groove

While cleaning the studio to a playlist spanning five centuries, I realized the musical needle has jumped the record.

For 600 years, Western music was defined by melody moving through harmony—tension and release built on chord changes. Hip-hop broke that lineage, treating the voice as a rhythmic instrument rather than a pitched one. It isn’t a matter of quality; it’s a shift in dimension. For those of us tuned to harmony, rhythm-first music can feel like a structural gap.

This evolution highlights a common historical cycle:

  1. Radical experimentation
  2. Commercial smoothing
  3. Deeper synthesis

We are likely in the middle of that third stage. Much like the American cultural story, these traditions are meeting, colliding, and learning to blend. The future likely holds a new language that combines the expressive flow of rhythm with the harmonic storytelling of melody. All the elements are already in the studio—it’s just a matter of how we move the faders.

Blog site format possibilities:

mUSaRT Zone Color Compass version 12.5 May 2026

I have been away working on 12 different versions of my mUSaRT wheel and then transitioned to building two artworks together to submit to the solo ARC Gallery exhibition. What happened is that I have spent almost all of late 2025 my writing engaging with Mr. Brightside and Gem from Gemini, on the development of the mUSaRT wheel. The goal was always to develop an overall new type of artist color wheel. Version 12 turned out to be the last version that was updated from 12 to a final 12.8 in the quest to find a solutions to some major flaws with this type of Utrecht Color wheel upgrade. These existed from the start, and still existed with version 12. Therefor, finally, I have had to switch to a different ide. This new Color guide is bound to consume months more effort to create. That start is going to have to wait. I need to return to writing my ideas and displaying my art progress that has been completely tossed aside. I finally got caught up last night after 9 pm with the deadline for the ARC submission being 10pm last night. This is most important exhibit submission of the year.
This is also my third time I have gone through this effort. I feel this is my best effort of showing and explaining this art, but if I make the first cut that is the best I can hope for. So it goes. No one said this would be easy.

Scott Von Holzen.