Of A Piece
Wooden Graffiti When we think about something that is “of a piece”, say, the life of an artwork over a century, it gathers meaning over the generations. The individual parts of a work function as an integral whole. This has been my MO for decades now where everything that I do fits in with some other aspect of something else at a system or conceptual level. For example, a photograph taken on a specific day is associated with some piece of music written on another day, in which some event took place, and becomes historical overlays. (See my Photographs For Music ) If you make the movie and create the score at the same time it will be more "of a piece" than if you create the music in the final phase. Each element can be generative when combined with something else. When your life is "of a piece", you can explore a lot of different things in a lifetime and they can work as an integral whole– even though it doesn't always appear to be that way. We can accept som...
