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Gerhard Richter

from 12 Painting Sketches by Sandpiper Parade

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I saw a fascinating display of Richter's once in Edinburgh. A couple of the paintings were clearly pieces where he had painted a more traditional landscape and painted over it in concrete grey. The experience of the painting is maddening...what's behind it? Did he really paint a whole massive canvas and then cover all but a little piece? And of course, while Germans like to concrete over their philosophy and poetry, they certainly aren't the country most prone to putting parking lots over the wild gardens of imagination. Or strip-malling over actual gardens.

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There's a picture behind this picture
But you can't see it
I'm just gonna give you
A little glimpse
A hill far away
Verdant, sunny
But the rest of this canvas
Is just grey

This city poured concrete on the flowers
The TV screen tossed cinder blocks
Concussing up my mind
A blade of grass strains through the sidewalk
They'll fix that grass
This is Germany

There's a place that I'm trying to remember
But ego and performance, desire and pride
Have all cluttered up that pretty picture
I wonder how much of me is left inside
Oh I wonder how much of me is left inside

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from 12 Painting Sketches, released August 6, 2016

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Indie-folk Acoustic Singer-Songwriter Multilingual World Traveler Music That is Sometimes to God, and sometimes not.

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