Describing the artistic vision of this series of artwork:

Vibration Sound Narratives

"At this plateau in my life, I want to start to reflect upon how my artwork affects lives."



In 2005 I started my series on vibration sound, which teaches the body at all levels how to have a new experience. Bringing us into focus with the opportunities to choose new ways to live out our lives in each new moment, they seem to mirror to us things that we have forgotten about ourselves, reminding us just how powerful we truly are in changing our reality. 


Vibration Sound Narratives was a five-year exploration of various musicians: jazz, improvisational jazz, creative music, electric music, and alternative sound where I created over 1,000 archived abstract sketches in a response to the sound streams of musicians. This was a visual transcription-recording of what I was feeling, hear, and seeing during these performances. 

Vibration Sound Narratives are a very comprehensive system of patterns or vibrations that teach our bodies at all levels how to have a new experience. They activate a practice similar to “Vi-bra Keys” associated with sound, shape, and image in the context of emotional response, and unlock visual-spatial intelligence in the artists among us, who think in pictures.





The artistic movement is known as “Abstract Expressionism” reached a peak in the mid-20th century; it was comprised of diverse styles and techniques that emphasized the artist’s freedom to express emotions and attitudes in nontraditional and nonrepresentational ways.




I love the freedom of the abstract expressionist Norman Lewis who was one of the few black Abstract Expressionists of an era when other Black artists were recording history with realism, and neo-realism, figurative works. or having the conversations of Postmodernism or minimalism.  Post World War II, a new wave of American art filtered through New York City. Abstract Expressionism – shapes, lines, and non-objective styles – became an influential movement that helped put NYC at the center of the western art world. 

Although the term Abstract Expressionism was first coined in 1929 when referring to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, who completed his artwork in Russia and Europe, the peak of the movement started in New York among a small group of loosely affiliated artists, the most famous of which is Jackson Pollock. Swiss-born Paul Klee (a colleague of Kandinsky) also completed many works in the style. Abstract Expressionism was the dominant trend in western painting throughout the 1950s; it has also been referred to as “The New York School” or “Action Painting.”[i]

 “These artists valued spontaneity and improvisation, and they accorded the highest importance to the process.[ii] Their work resists stylistic categorization, but it can be clustered around two basic inclinations: an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture, in contrast to a reflective, cerebral focus on more open fields of color. In either case, the imagery was primarily abstract. Even when depicting images based on visual realities, the Abstract Expressionists favored a highly abstracted mode.”

Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.


https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/the-color-black-norman-lewis-abstract-expressionism/

[i] by Debbie Jackson, Administrative Coordinator for the Art Therapy Department

Sources: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, pbs.org/wnet/AmericanMasters.

[ii] According to the website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013).