WHERE NOW?

music by Aaron Parks Little Big II : Where Now?"
8 paintings by Bjarne Werner Sørensen
exhibition Transitions. New York 2022.

This video is with music by Aaron Parks Little Big II, from the album: "Dreams of a Mechanical Man". The track "Where Now?" is by Chris Taylor, Aaron Parks, Greg Tuohey, Tommy Crane, David Ginyard, Jr.

The video presents 8 paintings by Bjarne Werner Sørensen transitioning into each other, from the exhibition "Transitions" in Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York 2022.

The voices of Parks’ bandmates are crucial throughout. “Where Now?” was fully improvised in the studio, portions of longer free-form explorations that lean on the band’s ability to glean logic from spontaneity. “This,” Parks says, “is the band really being a band, a living thing.”

Improvisation is an unfolding of nature. Exploring nature without being taught, as a continuation of matter unfolding. Improvisation becomes an extension of the exploration of nature into consciousness: nature coming back to itself.

The paintings are abstractions. They do not portray anything immediately recognizable. Stressing movement and contrast, the gesturally applied colors and forms make for compositions imprinted with a variety of natural phenomena. The tangled lines and convoluted planes that cover the canvas represent, if anything, inner forces of nature.

 

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