"You know how when you're listening to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway... then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again you're still in exact same time with it. That's what it's like." -The character, Danny, describing love. From the movie Music From Another Room
When you watch this movie and you get to that part, you will know the part I am talking about when you get to it, if you don't catch on to the little build ups prepping you for it, you will truly miss the impact and emotion of that scene. There's actually a few scenes like that in the movie but the one scene that was quietly more romantic than that of the main characters is the scene between Nina and Jesus ("My name is Jesus. I was named after a band leader in Panama City"). It's a quiet scene of two people fumbling around to get to know each other and literally/figuratively falling for one another.
What brought me back to this movie after years of not seeing it was the song from Poe called Fly Away. A few scenes surrounding Danny leaving and letting go of Anna impacted me in a different way. Where you can't explain how you feel so you state it in another way and it just has to be said. While he was painting over the painting of Anna's name on his wall and you think he is moving on and letting go; you see something much larger, more expressive, and beautiful of an expression in a mural.
Art is my translator for things I can't explain, express, or say clearly. When I saw that scene, I said out loud that I was so sure this was something I had to do in my life. Something large scale, completely expressive, and to the point of where if you could smear all the feelings in my heart on the wall then that would be it. This movie was a bit of an influence when I began painting murals in 2003. But I could never capture the heart of it as they were just representations of things I saw instead of things I felt. That emotion had been missing in the work and I know I need to pull those two aspects together.
Starting today for an entire year, I set myself on a path I need to go on until February 5, 2013. Right now I am finding the right place to put this mural. After a lot of contemplating and switching around from projects to projects, I know that this is the one thing that I have to focus on and complete but I had forgotten about. Yet once I remember it, it puts everything in perspective and the focus becomes clear. This is something I need to do.
When you watch this movie and you get to that part, you will know the part I am talking about when you get to it, if you don't catch on to the little build ups prepping you for it, you will truly miss the impact and emotion of that scene. There's actually a few scenes like that in the movie but the one scene that was quietly more romantic than that of the main characters is the scene between Nina and Jesus ("My name is Jesus. I was named after a band leader in Panama City"). It's a quiet scene of two people fumbling around to get to know each other and literally/figuratively falling for one another.
What brought me back to this movie after years of not seeing it was the song from Poe called Fly Away. A few scenes surrounding Danny leaving and letting go of Anna impacted me in a different way. Where you can't explain how you feel so you state it in another way and it just has to be said. While he was painting over the painting of Anna's name on his wall and you think he is moving on and letting go; you see something much larger, more expressive, and beautiful of an expression in a mural.
Art is my translator for things I can't explain, express, or say clearly. When I saw that scene, I said out loud that I was so sure this was something I had to do in my life. Something large scale, completely expressive, and to the point of where if you could smear all the feelings in my heart on the wall then that would be it. This movie was a bit of an influence when I began painting murals in 2003. But I could never capture the heart of it as they were just representations of things I saw instead of things I felt. That emotion had been missing in the work and I know I need to pull those two aspects together.
Starting today for an entire year, I set myself on a path I need to go on until February 5, 2013. Right now I am finding the right place to put this mural. After a lot of contemplating and switching around from projects to projects, I know that this is the one thing that I have to focus on and complete but I had forgotten about. Yet once I remember it, it puts everything in perspective and the focus becomes clear. This is something I need to do.
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