It is time to focus attention on next year's Sketchbook Project. It was a lot of fun to participate in last year's tour. (Here is a link to my digitized sketchbook from last year: http://www.arthousecoop.com/users/greensage )
This year the concept includes a global tour:
Sketchbook Project 2012
My theme for this year: "This is a Sketchbook."
Monday, October 3, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Final Piece to "Triduum"
In 2003 on Good Friday I wrote a song (simply titled "Good Friday") inspired by the events of Christ's Crucifixion and by the appropriate weather I noted on that day. Last year, in 2010, I wrote "Blue Sky Sunday", an Easter song that I finished on Good Friday; and, indeed, the following Easter Sunday of 2010 brought to us a beautiful blue sky---with just a wisp of white cloud, just like I had written in my song---it was a beautiful day.
This year I complete the "Triduum" with not a song, but a poem: "Holy Saturday". The absence of music seems appropriate for this part of the series. There is in Holy Saturday the idea of a suspense, a void, a silence that seems to call for a poem---simply words spoken about that unique day in history between atonement and triumph.
Holy Saturday
Fog hangs in the garden
On this grey Saturday
No light, no darkness
Only stone silence
And tepid suspense
Yesterday the earth shook
Rain soaked the quaking ground
Washed the blood over
Rocks, into rivulets
Seeking the low points
Yesterday the sky thundered
Tears flowed, mingling
With the fear in hearts
What has happened?
What has gone wrong?
Where is our hope?
Light, Love, Hope
Now lay in repose
Suspense
Death
The-Word-made-Flesh had succumbed to Death
But Death did not speak the final word…
---Gregory Eanes, April 2011
This year I complete the "Triduum" with not a song, but a poem: "Holy Saturday". The absence of music seems appropriate for this part of the series. There is in Holy Saturday the idea of a suspense, a void, a silence that seems to call for a poem---simply words spoken about that unique day in history between atonement and triumph.
Holy Saturday
Fog hangs in the garden
On this grey Saturday
No light, no darkness
Only stone silence
And tepid suspense
Yesterday the earth shook
Rain soaked the quaking ground
Washed the blood over
Rocks, into rivulets
Seeking the low points
Yesterday the sky thundered
Tears flowed, mingling
With the fear in hearts
What has happened?
What has gone wrong?
Where is our hope?
Light, Love, Hope
Now lay in repose
Suspense
Death
The-Word-made-Flesh had succumbed to Death
But Death did not speak the final word…
---Gregory Eanes, April 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Another New Year
Well, we have another bright, shiny new year ahead. Jimmie and I just finished up our Saturday Sessions Collection One project---December 4, 2010 was our last recording session.
Yesterday I finished up my final sketches for Sketchbook Project 2011. Just got my sketchbook in the mail to Brooklyn, NY---two days before the deadline!
And so, onward to other projects. The year is young, but, alas, there is so much to do!
Yesterday I finished up my final sketches for Sketchbook Project 2011. Just got my sketchbook in the mail to Brooklyn, NY---two days before the deadline!
And so, onward to other projects. The year is young, but, alas, there is so much to do!
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