Eduardo Shelly's Corner, Vejer de la Frontera (study)5x7 inches
A Month at the Chapel (study)6x6 inches
My Father's Hours, Santa Maria (study)6x6 inches
Above The Sheep Fold (study)6x6 inches
Small Wonder (sketch)4x5 inches
Part of the Dreamway (sketch)5x6 inches
Aracena Study
4x5 inches
Mirror of Light, Santa Maria (study)4x5 inches |
EXCERPT FROM SARA’S JOURNAL February 21, 1999
Calle Conde de Barajas, Seville
Sketches of Spain
As Miles Davis said, "That’s all I could hear last night in
my sleep…the melody is so strong there’s nothing you have to do with it".
He was talking about Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra by the
contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo--a piece he adapted for trumpet and
orchestra for his Sketches of Spain, with Gil Evans. "The thing I have to do
now is make things connect, make them mean something in what I play around it."
Spain’s melody…Spain’s images. Sketches of Spain abound
at every corner, on every façade, at every horizon. The light and shadows alone make for
a body of abstractions. Reduce the instrumentation of colour to a few key elements, and
let the pattern work around it. Make things connect. They’re easily beautiful
from the start. Now to internalize, to funnel, to synthesize the perfect visual experience
into the meaning that is beyond being here. And all of those extraordinary shades of
white.
These little sketches are the beginning of something I’d like to
make large. The continued designscape. Colourfield with shadows. It’s a challenge to
convert the little boxes and still to have them pack their punch. Huge stretches of tone
on tone. And the intermittent solo voice of the characteristic line.
I’ll piece together the story as I see fit, as the images come to
mind, as the patterns turn the Great Cosmic Crank. The story unfolds with the growth of
the body. For now, I’ll curl up, or swim in this pastel, and the deep, rough paper.
Miles said, "When Gil and I start on an album, we don’t know how it’s going
to wind up. It just goes on out there." |
James in the Pines, Carminal (sketch)4x5 inches
Late Light, Santa Maria (study)4x5 inches
Egon's Aracena (sketch)3x7 inches
To the Meson el Molino, Alajar (sketch)3x4 inches
Puerta, Castano del Robledo (sketch)3x4 inches
Santa Cruz Study 3x4 inches 
To The Meson el Molino, Alajar (watercolour)3x4 inches |
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