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Yosemite Valley (Albert Bierstadt)

from 12 Painting Sketches by Sandpiper Parade

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Song sketch response to Albert Bierstadt's Work. I remember going to the Corcoran in DC as a high schooler and we were just awed and completely drawn into the paintings; it was one of the first times in my life that art in a museum took my breath away. And it made me start to analyze the paintings, the line. Many of his paintings draw you in by having a focal point that's behind a mountain, in the unknown. And Bierstadt always has two sets of lines: one of the terrain, and one for the light.

The line Further up and Further in is from Narnia, I believe from the Last Battle...

Interscendence is a concept of mine that is best described in my poem "Blue Earth."

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Follow the line
Vanishing out of sight
A focal point beyond the river
Behind the mountains
The world invites you in

Follow the light
Into the unknown
The world is inviting you in
There's a glory in the hills
There's a shine if you can catch it
The world invites you in

And it's warm and unknown
And breathtaking
Further up and further in
Between the lines and light
The grass between your fingertips
The wind inside your lungs
Further up and further in
Come interscend

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from 12 Painting Sketches, released August 6, 2016
Track Art: Valley of the Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt

The use of the painting is allowed and protected since I am presenting the work in order to respond to it critically and creatively through song.

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James Metelak Kyrgyzstan

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

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