5.8.13

Elements of Elementary Exhibition - Running for the Entire Month of Aug 2013



(Me) Clara T


Meg Hyland and Clara T(Me)


All the Artists (image by Susan Ní Breen)


All the Artists (image by Susan Ní Breen)


Filled          G   a   p
 on the Great Hiatus

The Canary that Resonates in my Mind
Among Degas Ballerinas I made my Impression on Her
La Resurréction au Palais Garnier

Inspired by Nicholas Meyers 1993, pastiche ‘The Canary Trainer: From the  memoirs of John H Watson.
The story is set in 1890 and recalls Holmes encounter with Adler in the Paris Opera House. She is an esteemed Contralto. Holmes takes up a job as a violinist there under the persona of Scandanavian ‘Sigerson’. Holmes, thought to be dead by Adler only when she discovers his face in a painting of Degas who used to regularly frequent the Palais at this time.
The Canary Trainer describes Holmes adventures during his ‘great hiatus’
Canary is a slang term for female singer.


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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Quotidian Components
Filled Gap on the Great Hiatus
CoDa



CoDa

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' 
That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.”

The first track on the 2009 Sherlock Holmes soundtrack
Spot the opening bar of the Hans Zimmer piece ‘Discombobulate’ in this piece.


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

A glance across the dust pink pirouette
Dare we mention the Clarity of the Murky water of the Thames
Living la vida loca with landlady Hudson
Evermore, the candle melts in steady synchronicity with the moving hand of my grandfather clock
Remembering. Revolving. Evolving.