These are paintings with text that combine fragments of poetry and prose as a type of musical score open to various interpretations and realizations. The text excerpts come from a 1970 lecture by poet Lew Welch and are overlaid on paintings created with stones and gouache to provide endless creative possibilities for performance using any combination of instruments or media.
These are paintings with text that combine fragments of poetry and prose as a type of musical score open to various interpretations and realizations. The text excerpts come from a 1970 lecture by poet Lew Welch and are overlaid on paintings created with stones and gouache to provide endless creative possibilities for performance using any combination of instruments or media.
These are paintings with text that combine fragments of poetry and prose as a type of musical score open to various interpretations and realizations. The text excerpts come from a 1970 lecture by poet Lew Welch and are overlaid on paintings created with stones and gouache to provide endless creative possibilities for performance using any combination of instruments or media.
These are paintings with text that combine fragments of poetry and prose as a type of musical score open to various interpretations and realizations. The text excerpts come from a 1970 lecture by poet Lew Welch and are overlaid on paintings created with stones and gouache to provide endless creative possibilities for performance using any combination of instruments or media.
or texts with painting the texts are derived by choice from a lecture written by lew welch an american poet written in 1970 entitled language is speech the title each one is one comes from gertrude stein they are intended as musical scores to be realised by a dedicated and creative person or group of people the texts are overlaid in order to create a sublime situation there are no instructions the possibilities are endless a realisation could be vast and complex or small and simple, etc any instruments or media can be used the paintings are created by stones with gouache the texts are printed with ink in 1978 john cage commented that he had become interested in writing difficult music because of the world situation which often seems so hopeless in a sense these graphic score are like koans