The Crystal Shores of Old

Title:
The Crystal Shores of Old

Description:
The song "Crystal Shores of Old", a longing for a former existence also of the distant future, outside of the universe of atomic matter and these material laws of physics. Called "Crystal Shores" because nothing there is synthetic or man made. Written in Suva, Fiji, 1978. It was there I also managed to do three paintings of the engine of the universe that got stolen a few years later in Jakarta, Indonesia (where I used to write songs at the Utari Restaurant, so it seemed to me, with the help of saints and angels -- the "UFO's of Blok M"). Played here on my twelve stringed acoustic guitar using the "staccato" technique I developed in Paris in 1977, where whole cords are played as if they were individual notes. I'm sorry for the quality of the recording, it was done in a garage in Bethel, Connecticut back in 1987, sort of "on the fly", as it were, at the end of my first phase of travel, "The Parisian Phase" from 1978 to 1987. Two trips around the world in ten years. Of course, I was doing a lot of travel before that, in fact, I only lived in my place of birth, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (1946), for six weeks before moving on to -- ultimately -- Japan for the next couple of years. The drawing is one of the "Greenwich Village Series", which you can find on my web site, paulhallart.com -- the exact url location is: http://www.paulhallart.com/pages/literature/deeperlevels/batmanlevel1/gvsketchpad/enliveningofmorrilla.htm It was one of a series of drawings I was doing in large newsprint sketch pads, often just leaving them intact and not detaching the pages from the pad. The medium was compressed charcoal in this case. One of the last times I was able to use it. Graphics was in it's infancy in the sixties, with only hand drawn things and film photography. It was well before digital. I was really cranking for a while in that little studio, I had two easels back to back in the main room, plus a few other areas where I did sketches like this one, plus I had another small easel in the bathtub which I used for water color and guache. The digitization was done in my digital art studio which I briefly had out there at Oak Avenue in Carlsbad, California, where I was using the sketch as the basis of a series of studies using a combination of filters. But soon, sure enough, I had to move on.

Author:
paulhallart

Tags:
Suva, Fiji, New York City, Enlivening, 12-string playlist, songs, artwork, sticatto, Greenwich Village Series, drawings, compressed charcoal, newsprint, sketchpad, digitization, The UFO's of Blok M,