Jeez. You've done it AGAIN, Peter. By day I work in an art museum, and I just love the scope of your artistic interests. (Coincidentally we just closed a big exhibition of Hokusai and other Japanese prints earlier this year β it was excellent).
I appreciate the way you distill complexity into the simplest elements of geometry & color. Then, to my ear, it's like you mix and add back all the pieces you subtracted-- by turning them into different layers of sound. Very weird and very cool. You must be having so much fun.
I was stoked the moment I saw the title of your post. Peter, you've managed to hit another of my favorite things. I love "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"! It's marvelously weird. You did a great job of creating a soaring, sweeping soundtrack to accompany this epic tale!
Katsushika Εiβs work is even more interesting to me than the stuff by (attributed?) to her more famou father. The color palette in "Operating on Guan Yu's Arm" is fantastic, and feels more modern that it should having been painted in the mid-19th century.
I missed these posts. Itβs bittersweet but good to be back π
You captured the painting perfectly. I'm going to have to give "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a read as well.
Thanx! Yes, must read!
I am not big on manga, more a Shogun kinda guy but that scroll! Man! Great reduction, sweet dissonance.
One of my favorite beats to date.
Me too! A little over the top grandiose I suppose but a lot of fun to do.
Jeez. You've done it AGAIN, Peter. By day I work in an art museum, and I just love the scope of your artistic interests. (Coincidentally we just closed a big exhibition of Hokusai and other Japanese prints earlier this year β it was excellent).
Oh wow, didnβt know you worked in a museum, very envious! Thanks much for the kind words.
I just write grants, but I do get to walk by one of Monet's "Waterlilies" when I need to go to the bathroom. It's pretty great.
I appreciate the way you distill complexity into the simplest elements of geometry & color. Then, to my ear, it's like you mix and add back all the pieces you subtracted-- by turning them into different layers of sound. Very weird and very cool. You must be having so much fun.
Wow, that is such a great way of thinking about the process. Man, I love this Substack community, such cool people with such cool ideas.
And yes, this project is probably the most fun Iβve ever had doing art.
I was stoked the moment I saw the title of your post. Peter, you've managed to hit another of my favorite things. I love "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"! It's marvelously weird. You did a great job of creating a soaring, sweeping soundtrack to accompany this epic tale!
Katsushika Εiβs work is even more interesting to me than the stuff by (attributed?) to her more famou father. The color palette in "Operating on Guan Yu's Arm" is fantastic, and feels more modern that it should having been painted in the mid-19th century.
Wow, thanx! I now have no excuse, must find time to read. And agreed, the colors seem so modern!