oil and egg tempera on stretched canvas
120 x 80 cm
2012
This one is another part of my people and their work/vocation. I did choose a musician as you can see quite clearly. I met Karan 10 years ago in Berlin where she and her band partner had an act at one of the many bars. We talked a little bit and I decided she was a very nice woman. Now we sometimes talk in our blogs, it´s a loose contact.
For the painting she told me a few things she likes, she has made and showed me her favoured outfit. At this time I already made up my mind to partner her with a raven (after that she told me she loves crows), who whispers something to her. I think it´s Muninn, the wisdom, the whisperer. I don´t know what exactly he´s telling Karan, but as I know this raven, it´s quite interesting and mythic, full of symbols and dreams. Even her smile tells me that. Maybe she reveals some of that in one of her next songs.
She has all time in the world as she sits there on her Shakuhachi throne, a japanese flute made of bamboo and as unique as every bamboo has naturally grown. It´s some kind of fundament as she learned to play that instrument – it leaded her to lots of other ones, even she wanted to have a guitar in this picture. I´ve seen her play lots of instruments, even a horse scull (that was an interesting experience for me).
And so she sits in a room that isn´t a normal room – leastwise the way it looks. It´s a litte homage to Magritte. So the room looks not as limited as it usually would. The spirit is able to move about freely, the creativity weaves new threads. And even in this form this room is what a room often is: protection for all these fragile things to move around without boundaries, to sprout words who become sentences who become songs.
So I hope I´ll hear about this in the future.
