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My hands individually and together played with the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra as we heard the world premiere of Shahov's Piano Concerto No. 2.  Conductor, Cristian Macelaru guided the brilliant orchestra and solo pianist Simon Trpceski through integrations of piano and marimbas.  I was in the moment stunned as one of my hands played the piano and the other the wind section, strings or the percussions.  This well balanced and dynamic conglomeration of diverse sounds and textures is an intimacy, it is what it means to be human and it gives me great hope.

In this 2 minute video I describe a key element of my art making process. Different qualities such as stacatto, pour, squeeze, splat come from different movement patterns and orientations in my body.

Eloise an activist from Vermont told me, "It's really powerful to explore tension and judgment publicly as its usually something people keep inside or get really loud with at demonstrations.  But getting feelings on paper is not like chanting. I liked mixing together the calm and the tension in the same moment as I made art."

When I spoke with Marco Gutierrez and engaged him on getting calm and curious as he painted and drew on the scroll, I didn't know that he was the co-founder of Latinos for Trump who would later make the news.  

"My culture is a very dominant culture, and it's imposing - and it's causing problems," he told Joy Ann Reid of MSNBC yesterday.  "if you don't do something about it, your going to have taco trucks on every corner."

Do you remember the feel of finger paint on your fingers?  That moment when you saw the red, blue, green, yellow, orange on the page.  And the feeling of amazement of how you put it there? 

Just about all of us have had this experience.  

Contact:  Andrew Purchin

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On the airplane to the Republican National Convention to Cleveland.  I imagine the touch of many people on the linen scroll and wonder what will happen.  Each of us have our own unique and needed expression that is a gift from the devine.

I recently had the pleasure of painting live at the Great Big Love Concert by Michael Levy. Click on the painting above to see the large square version of "Big Love and the Changing Climate." It is 20" x 20"  acrylic on linen. I'm offering it at an introductory price of $450.  

"Life without music would be sterile and incomplete.  I do not mean soley music as a defined art or performance.  I am referring to the music which is constantly there as we interact with one another and as we persue our tasks.  There is between us at all times an experiencing one another across musical directions.  We have a song for everyone we meet, one that may be characteristically ours but with variations for almost every interaction which takes place."  --Lewis Ellenhorn 

I had the pleasure of meeting Abbas while playing "The Game of Crustopoly" at the "Encounters on the Frontier" exhibit by Mohsin Shafi and myself in Pakistan.  I was impressed by Abbas' quick wit and questioning mind.  He commented on how Native Americans are called "Indians" because of the mistake of the first European settlers in North America and how funny that is.  Perhaps we continue that mistaken tradition by not understanding and honoring Eastern culture and Islam enough.