the inexhaustible. pt. I

song: [Sucre Sacre (Jose Marquez radio edit) - Trinidad Senolia]

The inexhaustible. reincarnated…

I love some mf musicians.

Well, I really just love when any mf is dedicated to their craft.

This past week, I wrote down all the teachers and guides in my life that I could recall. Folks I’ve known personally or through their spirit. Places. plants. Water. Recollecting the wisdom of these guides, through the peace and the conflicts exchanged.

I’ve also been listening to an archive of musicians sharing their stories. The amount of curiosity and respect towards investment in craft over decades in intergenerational exchange is very inspiring. While most of the guests work sound, the exchange through the love of art connects beyond medium and era. In ways that don’t feel too heady or classist.

To listen and communicate like mycelium, beneath the surface of the worlds weight...

Back in October, drummer and SFJAZZ Collective member Kendrick Scott wrote a beauuutiful piece in collaboration with one of my works “The Child Opens Its Eyes to the Earth” for the de Young Collection x Svane x SFJAZZ show. During my short trip home, I was able to visit the studio while the band recorded it in prep for their performances the following week. Having tried to teach myself keys on my Casio as a kid, while also believing I could communicate with my estranged father who was a musician (how that worked out is another story). I absolutely love musician speak that I can’t even understand. (I really should take lessons).

Anyways, over the years, I’ve been dreaming up ways visual renderings of sound can be created. Album cover work and design are perfect examples.

Album artwork for *The Great Bailout (Deluxe)* by Moor Mother

Visual renderings of the known electromagnetic spectrum that are coded/ translated/ condensed into the optic visual (understanding) light spectrum (color) such as with NASA space images. The translation of the (invisible) light is intertwined with the translator/ medium / program (human or otherwise). As individuals we similarly do this. “Seeing” and visibility are more varied – not in as just deficits – than they’re treated. Our idea of sensing is tethered to external physiological counterparts theorized or at least popularized by Plato. Senses – see “The Gut” by Elizabeth Perez. How we relate to our senses is taken for granted in how it continues to structure “our? World(s)”.

How do we see the invisibilized? No – not the invisible that isn’t for us to be seen (deep submarine). When Scott shared his notes with me in the studio the best I had to offer was “you can see”.

Blog TBC…..

the inexhaustible. pt. I

GENERATION LOSS