The repeating groups of words under the attached music match the flow from my cover music of All too Well: “you remember it all,” “it was rare I was there” & “I remember it all too well.” On the backside of this artwork I have already added the speaker boxes that then push this artwork out 6 plus inches from the wall. I was not sure I could take an ordinary canvas and mount it far out from the wall, but the side look works, and the side mounting of the speakers improves the stereo soundstage. Still to be worked on is the building of the stereo system, the mastering of the cover music and the fine tunning of the artworks sound quality.
The move to using canvases measuring 36 inches in height by 30 wide, as mentioned before, is from taking another look at the style of Mark Rothko’s much larger sized artworks he created on rectangular canvas. This choice to use a consistent sized canvas has good reasoning. An important positive is that smaller and consistent size artworks are easier to travel and to store. A marketing point is that the rectangular shape of art remains the major look hanging in galleries. In comparison much of this art over many years has been irregular shaped, or stretched long (consistent with the look of sheet music). What is an unusual look is this year’s move to smaller size artworks. Surprisingly, the idea to reduce this art size resulted in using two different sized canvases hung together. Another positive is that using a consistent size canvas provides a template for future artworks, simplifying their construction, saving time and money (this art is all self funded). Finally, I looked at Mark Rothko’s hundreds of vertical rectangular canvases, never hearing or reading any review a complaint about their consistent shape. Similarly, I have never heard a remark about the different shapes of this art. If the rectangle worked for Rothko, I think I can make that same shape work for this art. Maybe for years.
Scott Von Holzen
