The saga continues with the foot. Now, I’m more concerned
about rehab of the knee. I’m learning far more about anatomy and how the human
body is supposed to work and how my body has been accustomed to working than I
ever wanted to know. I’d prefer to just get from point A to point B without
thinking about it all. Sigh. The good news is, I’m making progress at the 3
steps forward, 1 step back rate.
Before I share pictures of the second round of my
interpretation of the Saint Saens movement, I wanted to share a bit of how I
have been thinking through my design.
There are elements of design that all artists deal with.
Sometimes it drives the whole project, other times, things just fall into
place. Changing facets of each element change the art. That’s all I’m qualified
to say on that. I’ve only scratched the surface learning about all that. I don’t
feel it’s necessary to spend a whole lot of time on deciding how I’m going to
tat, but I am basing my art on the thought that it is important to spend time
looking carefully at the music and assigning visual cues to what we hear.
If that’s clear as mud, don’t feel bad. I’m still
striving for a way to express my process.
For this composition, I’ve decided to correlate the color
of the beads to what section of the orchestra has the “melody” or whatever we
recognize as a theme. Each element of tatting (ring, chain, etc) roughly
correlates to phrases or sections. Finally, I’ve decided to use only 1 color
thread. And I’ve decided a circular “doily” overall structure suits the
composition.
If you glance up at yesterday picture, you see some green
thread. That’s a metallic sewing thread added using the “daisy picot” technique
to represent the piano part. There are 4 phrases to the melody lifted out for
the movie. The strings and pianos play it first, then the organ and brass. I ignored
the brass frequently in this version. I felt guilty until I really looked at
how he composed the 2nd movement and then made that call for this
movement. When I create something representing the 2nd movement, I’ll
revisit that decision.
Tomorrow I’ll explain what I saw in the fugue subject.