Having
been preoccupied with my own work and hectic schedule as of late, I
was surprised when I saw that Rebecca has messaged me once again to
let me know that she had a new video up. So soon after the last post?
This woman has been rather busy. Her note was full of enthusiasm as
always, with a joke between her and I on asking if I was able to do
another painting to go with one of her upcoming videos: “Hi, Dawn.
Here's the fuchsia art video! 60 videos are done, and only 4 to go!
Then I can finally move on to the next project, which, knowing me,
will probably be even bigger than this one. After this, there will be
only two of more videos to send you: trumpet flowers and honeysuckle.
(Unless you want to paint me a freesia) I hope you like this. It's
sweet, perky at first, and then emotional and dramatic”. Sweet and
perky to emotional and dramatic, hm? At this point I was stroking my
invisible beard as I pondered what the piece would sound like. So off
I went on my musical adventure.
Waltz of the Fuchsia is a rather delicate tune with the melody going from what
could be described as spriteful to sultry. It is as if the music went
from a child's tune and followed that person to becoming a young
adult. Perhaps not quite along the lines of Antonio Vivaldi's
(1678-1741) The Four Seasons since each season were their
own piece. Rebecca's piece actually makes me think of some of the
instrumentals from My Fair Lady (1964). This is perhaps due to the
fact that when I was listening to the piece, I found myself imagining
a young man courting a lovely lady while strolling through a flower
garden somewhere in Paris. With that mind set, it was only logical
for my mind to go to some classic movies. On a different note, while
I was wandering through videos attempting to find the right comparison to Waltz of the Fuchsia, I stumbled across a piece by Swiss composer Adrian von Ziegler titled Evening Breeze which reminds me
very much of Rebecca's pieces including the addition of the sound of
bird calls in the background. Of course the birds that he uses are
the caws of crows and ravens combined with the chirping of crickets
but within the piece it makes sense.
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| "There was a Kingdom" by Dawn Star Wood |
While
looking through the beautiful pieces that she had compiled for the
video, I was amused that Rebecca had used one of my much older pieces
from 2008 titled There was a Kingdom. She did use the same piece for
her piece Waltzing Under Wisteria, which I featured in Collaborationwith Rebecca Tripp – part 9. As I had mentioned in that
installment, There was a Kingdom was part of an unfinished series I
was working on at the time where I was trying to tell a small story
through a group of different floral paintings and their titles. At
the time I realized that what I wanted to do was not where my skill
level in painting was so abandoned the project to perhaps redo
sometime in the future.
If you would like to see more from Rebecca and give her a message, here's where you can find her work:
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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RebeccaETripp
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