In the previously recorded sound piece, “Empty & Willin'”, produced and mixed in a recording studio, the thickness of the recording techniques is quite apparent.
Here the raw poetry is revisited, I am using the program called GarageBand, as a way to create a quick sketch, experimenting with new tools to in making sound.
The series continues with the second poem; “In The Sky”, and begins to merge with the focus of my paintings right now.
I am thinking about a question that Gauguin asked long ago;
Who are WE? Where did we come from? Where are we going?
EMPTY & WILLIN’
The SYMPTOMS were evident
In the Arts, In the Political Structure, the church, and the Family
It was the calm before the storm
The CRISIS before the TRANSFORMATION of an entire civilization
Doomsday speakers had their say
There is always a place in this world for the negative
It was the ones who thought positively
They were the TARGET!
To THEM we represented the PAST
The CONFRONTATION between the YOUNG and the OLD
FREEDOM and CONFORMITY
TRUTH and DECEPTION
But even as we grew, and became more a part of the system
They didn’t see us for who we really were
If they had listened to the voices in the sky who had inspired our minds
PERHAPS we would have spared the world such pain
But our world was set up
From the START our PLANET was involved in a CONSPIRACY in HEAVEN
That SHE took no part in
THAT WAS THE ANGEL’S BATTLE!
Those were Cosmic consequences that the planet had grown up with
EMPTY & WILLIN’
In The Sky
This round sphere spinning
Traveling around the great sun
Older than we realize
Hiding truths yet be revealed
In this time of man
The long history of earth
So Many stories and legends
Each one a part of the truth
Revealed over centuries
Millenniums
We think we know the story
We only know parts of the story
We have forgotten
Or lost
Most of the truth…
Buried and forgotten
Under the sands
Hidden from view
Lay the history of our planet
Under the sea
A world still so deep
Unknown to us
The hidden caves
Over time we discover
Bits and pieces of Ancient Texts
Cracked and dried out skulls
Traces of lives lived and lost to time
Mummies that reveal strangely shaped heads
And the Art
Everywhere
In every culture
Revealing something
Out there in the Sky