acf domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/alagram/public_html/wp/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Big day on Friday last, the first Private View for the Alagram collection. Ooohs and Aaaahs aplenty, and maybe, weather permitting, a couple of sales. Lots of searching questions provoking some elliptic responses from the Artist in Residence. The most recent addition, see featured image, is one of which I am particularly proud. It has taken its title from the Ellington Shakespearian suite of that name, and uses some of its flavours; a spot of Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra’s galley, some Madness in Great Ones, and a fresh pair of Star-Crossed Lovers.
This piece has a curious history. A frame near the door had become vacant, the previous boldly-coloured, thunderfly-spotted occupant having moved on for a bit of R & R, and it needed a new tenant. I noted the bold colours of the original, and went looking for a likely successor. I found a tiny image, some 8 cm square, part of a sequence inspired by Erik Satie’s piano music, and enlarged it till it was ten times bigger. Most of the left half of the new monster needed a complete overhaul and re-imagining, but as is so often the case, new unplanned possibilities emerged, and it turned out even better than I’d hoped. It gives visitors a resounding and welcoming fanfare.
Duke Ellington used space and silence brilliantly in Such Sweet Thunder, and there’s plenty of both in my version.