Music

Artist: John Fish
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Music

It was a scratching voice and a simple song. The melody was repetitive. The notes like distilled liquid landing in drops of silver onto blue mirrored surfaces that cast shadows of rainbows across the dimly lit room.
A candle lighted the way to a stairway. From behind a door on the second floor a golden glow shined and called as if it was an old friend.
The music was meant to be followed. The light as well. Both would be gone and forgotten eventually. But for now they still called. And that was the most exciting part.
Those few simple notes stuck in the listeners brain. A photo you see of an unknown relative that has your eyes seen in an old album under a dead person’s bed. A bell that rang at just the right time. The flash of light in a window that is a familiar scene, though you are in a city you’ve never been to before. The chime in the distance just as you kissed. The train whistle as you said goodbye. The voice that kept repeating true true true across a busy street and reaches out a hand that one can never catch because of traffic.
I escaped the storm. Yet, now I miss the rain. And the song remains the same. Even though the music box is now broken. I wait. But I wait for nothing. I just know there always is something. And that kind of waiting can hold peace.
Music is 15”x20”
acrylic paint, India Ink, markers and gesso on poster paper

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banrai

superb backdrop, sublime sketch…. like your painted music! fine work John.
John Fish replied

thank you
Lynn Moore

Wonderful John!
John Fish replied

thanks so much Lynn
Deborah Milligan

such a compelling piece! just beautiful john. I love the way the face sits in front of, and within, the background at the same time. It draws me in.
John Fish replied

thank you Deb
LavenderMoon

I could never do this… no matter how hard I might try… I envy your skills, John… and the written words that go with it are equally compelling…
John Fish replied

thanks and I wish I could take marvelous close ups like you do. great hearing from you
Richard G Witham

I haven’t read the accompanying text yet, but I have to say that this painting is the most musical piece I’ve ever seen. I could hardly resist the urge to turn up the volume … Amazing!
John Fish replied

what a great comment. thanks so much Richard
Farras Abdelnour

very intense! great texture and just beautiful sketch
John Fish replied

thank you for commenting
Richard G Witham

A few do hear the music and hold it inside to be revealed again and again and cherished.
My favorite line is “I escaped the storm. Yet, now I miss the rain”.
John Fish replied

thanks so much. interesting you say that line was your favorite. I find these spontaneous pieces ramble on and on and then the last line is really what I wanted to say. maybe I should cut the rest out. thanks again
Keith Reesor

Marvelous work John!! :)
John Fish replied

thank you for commenting
butchart

almost as if life is one very long moment of dejas vu….. hard to sum up my impressions in such a short statement…. but that is what i take from these words and image…........b
John Fish

thanks butch. It does sound like deja vu, but I think I had in mind the idea that everything is connected. Everything affects everything else even if we don’t realize it. there never is silence or an empty space. it’s just that we can’t hear or see what’s there.
thanks again
LavenderMoon

I wish I could take marvelous close ups like you do.

With today’s technology… I think you would find it’s not as tough as it might seem… the new digitals make things much easier, but I confess I have had a love of close up photography since I was a teenager…I still have the close up lens kit I got for my old Minolta XG-1… it still takes great shots, too. : )
John Fish replied

believe me I’ve tried. it’s always harder than I think it will be. you really have a talent for the close up work
catherine walker

Fabulous ..so well done!
John Fish replied

thank you so much catherine
CanDuCreations

Intriguing, well expressed work John.
Kathie Nichols

Just wonderful John, so much talent!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
arteology

excellent!