Artist Geneologies

The longer you are doing creative work the deeper the connections to the past, that surface in your work decades later. 

I was talking with a musician friend about St Vincent's collaboration with David Byrne and how she became a protege of sorts. Similarly The Talking Heads would have not had the same success without Brian Eno (arguably). Eno would not have the same success without John Cage, Steve Reich and Roy Ascott, and so on. There can be many degrees of separation but we're all related in the genealogy of artists.

We think we forget things or move on from old styles, but it is all still bedrock that lots of generations can build on top of.