Desert Crossings · Luminous Journey

These forms are based on a series of sketches drawn from photos of the local desert: a poetic and painterly response to my experience in Arizona. The intensity that is gathered into the ‘fire flower’ over the podium gives a dynamic power to the composition. The desert forms move out from the podium through the warm golds, flowing into blue-greens and then dissolving into deep blue: chosen to correspond with the intensity and full spectrum of light present in the music building.

The drawings from the desert are overlaid with lyrically painted rhythmic measures of musical composition.   These intersections give us an ever-changing illuminated pattern of crossings and a sense of journey.