Luna Twist– Soon at the Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
—Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener (1915)
There’s a song that pops up on a regular basis on a Pandora channel that I often have on when I write for the blog each morning. It’s infectious sound always makes me stop and look to see what and who it is.
It’s a song called Lillies of the Vallery from Japanese composer Jun Miyake. It was used in the 2011 film, Pina, from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, best known for his Wings of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club. Miyake has worked with Wenders on a number of his films. The film Pina is a documentary about the life and work of dancer/choreographer Pina Bausch.
I thought it would be a good song for this week’s Sunday Morning Music since I also wanted to show the new smaller painting at the top that will be accompanying me, along with a small group of new work, to the Principle Gallery for my Gallery Talk there on Saturday, September 30.
The painting, a 9″ by 12″ canvas, is called Luna Twist. It’s a piece that has attracted my attention quite a bit in the past few weeks. Maybe it’s the attraction of the twisting dancer to the moon set against the vast space that separates them. Or maybe it’s the dancer’s relationship to the Red Tree in the distance, whose stance seems to be mirrored in the dancer. Or maybe it is the mirroring between the moon and the lit area on which the dancer twists that attracts me?
Or maybe it is my own desire to dance freely set against the awkwardness and self-consciousness that keeps me from doing so?
I don’t know and it really doesn’t matter. Maybe we try too hard sometimes to know the reason behind our attraction to certain things rather than just savoring our pleasure in them. Perhaps we over analyze things and don’t just revel in the moment.
Maybe that is what this piece about.
Have to think about that.
Hmm, that seems the opposite of what I should be doing based on what I just wrote, doesn’t it? So, for right now, I am going to savor what I feel in this painting and the music.
Here’s the clip from Wim Wenders’ Pina featuring Lillies of the Valley from Jun Miyake.
Now get out of here– gotta dance…
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