Felt so weak and tired yesterday, perhaps due to doing so much the day before. I updated my website, adding the new paintings there, and prepared an information pack for the new album. I also worked on designs for new stands to help with my art photography, and other small jobs. Late in the day, I drew out a painting idea, currently called 'The Empty House'. I've had an idea called 'Wilderness Of Calcified Ovaries' in progress for over a year, but decided to split it into two; 'Love And Fragility In The Age Of Perfection' which is about mortality and immortality in love, and this one, 'The Empty House', about the procreative drive.
Today, drew out Love And Fragility; it will be about 33x40cm. In the afternoon I worked on the first glazing layer to 'All About Eve'.
Music while painting consisted of Amarok; an album remarkable for containing so much hatred, an emotion rarely expressed in art, and especially instrumental music. I wish Margaret Thatcher wasn't in it, and wish that the climax lasted longer. Like many of Oldfield's works, it cycles between many instruments, and several moods (including the lively jig, the romantic Spanish guitar; Oldfield tropes) and a few musical themes. I think that structurally it works well, and suits its 60-minute single-movement format. Then, Atom Heart Mother, which is also largely instrumental and epic, then The Story Of I by Patrick Moraz, which is ear-splittingly high pitched at times, but always too frenetic, too manic and unfocused. It should be called The Story Of Mania (or The Story Of ADHD in contemporary parlance). The intermezzo attracted me, and is the best part of the album.
