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Hallelujah photo from Friday night.  Family was here this weekend, and the home improvement project was building another bookshelf to fill with Art and Music books.  It is quiet now, they are gone home.  It was the standing watching their car slowly disappear down the road,  that is most difficult.  To go from the voices and noises of many to the slowly dying engine sound of a white Toyota van traveling away puts everything in perspective.

What is above was completed in a couple of hours time early Friday night, before they arrived.   It does not look like much, but a lot of time goes into thinking. And again a big wall of frustration for this artist is a need for more colors that just may not exist, or possible he has not discovered, ….yet. The search continues, but for now relief was found for the eighth notes in Iridescent Copper, Yellow Ochre,  and Gold Ochre.  This music which is listened to every night is sad, but inspirational, and also an inspirational challenge, that is much enjoyed.

It is the Music.  It is the Sound.  It is the Deliverance. It is the Spiritual. It is the Salvation.  It is Art.

Scott Von Holzen

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Hallelujah on a Friday evening.  The changes here are not that great, but this is going to be a family weekend, with an added home improvement in the studio.  There is a need for another bookshelf to hold all the Art and Music books that fill this artist life.  No iPad here,  even though the day job name could easily be described as an official Computer Geek. The lucky part is playing with computers all day, and getting paid for it.  Living the Dream Day & Night.  No matter, no download here, for there is just something special about holding, and feeling the weight of a great Art book.

What you are seeing new, are the mostly circular outlines of the five magnificent  8th notes.  Tonight, the coloring is the next project after publishing these comments, because once in the flow of the art it is hard to stop and do a blog entry.

Also, to share a small secret, the only word that appears on this ten foot canvas is Hallelujah.  But, and this important to this artist, there is in every work the concerted effort to separate the Music and its words from the Art and its use of  words.  In the Music, there are actually four hallelujahs and in the Art only one syllable is taken from each, to form the one word: simply an effective message that stands on its own

Scott Von Holzen  and www.scottvonholzen.com

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Hallelujah a 36″ by 10 foot canvas.  Most of the art is done in the evenings, which mounts to a couple to three hours generally, sometimes less (life gets in the way of Art). The point is the last couple of days the progress has been slow.  This may be also because the expectations are high, which leads to a lot of starring, standing back, second guesses, and looking over past works to see what the differences are.  This work is leaning a lot on I Call Your Name.

What is needed is for it to step up and make its voice heard.  The ears are open.  They are also listening to the Leon Cohen live versions of Hallelujah which are the kick start to the nights work.

The music and the art will come together, that is how it works, that is what it takes, that is how it gets done.

Scott Von Holzen

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