July 17, 2004
July 16, 2004
11. Under the Red Sky, 1990; 12. Good as I Been to You, 1992
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July 15, 2004
9. Down in the Groove, 1988; 10. Oh Mercy, 1989
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July 14, 2004
7. Empire Burlesque, 1985; 8. Knocked Out Loaded, 1986
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July 13, 2004
5. Shot of Love, 1981; 6. Infidels, 1983
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July 12, 2004
3. Slow Train Coming, 1979; 4. Saved, 1980
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July 11, 2004
1. Desire, 1976; 2. Street Legal, 1978
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mouthsounds 1-30
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hum, croon, drone, moan, mumble, murmur June 26-July 10, 2004, HTML, 396 X 270 pixels each (represented by a size-reduced .gif) |
One day, somewhere in the middle of the second recent Hummingbird series, I mistakenly titled a drawing "Humming" rather than "Hummingbird." Jim took that as a transition in the series, and commented about it to me. In was just a typo, however, which I fixed, but it did give me a subject for more drawings. Rather than just do a bunch of drawings about humming, though, I had the mundane idea of using a thesaurus to make a list of words for sounds, which turned out to be a list of thirty words for sounds made with the mouth.
Usually a series of drawings these days run from twelve to eighteen, and I usually do just one drawing each day, but I thought for a change I'd do two drawings a day over fifteen days, rather than drag it out for thirty days. I decided to limit the number of colors each day to two to four, which didn't last, and I decided not to use color in the way I've done a lot recently to depict a kind of transparency, overlay, or, even, a kind of glaze effect, which did last throughout the series. As usual, making images with a grid that don't seem initially and lastingly grid-bound is one of the greatest problems.
Each drawing is an attempt to represent either making, hearing, or experiencing the sound. Although making and hearing are also experiences of the sound, so is something which is quite different, which is the memory of sound, the imagined, mental, internal sound, like thought, and the range of associations one has with a sound: who, where, when, why, sight, smell, touch, time, emotion, and reaction.