You know you've picked the right violin teacher when the week of the performance your only assignment is to play the piece in as many awkward venues as possible, to overcome your performance anxiety. It's probably the first time these four places have [...]
On the heels of the documentary phase of Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra: 28° F, I’ve been back in the studio completing the final paintings and drawings of the burning violins. My upcoming exhibition Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra: Drawings [...]
The winter storm exited Flagstaff Jan 8. The evening prior, I’d anticipated visiting the site in the morning to document whatever snow had accumulated overnight in the final throws of the weather pattern, planning to leave the pile intact to return [...]
Time-lapse video captures the dismantling of the pile of instruments: Video credit: Mark Neumann
Continuing to check weather reports on the phone, comparing disparate forecasts from multiple weather channels for the approaching series of storms. According to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, “Thanks to El Niño, northern Arizona is likely to see near or [...]
Patience. The pile of instruments seems to be positioned in the rain shadow of the San Francisco Peaks, a little haven of unwelcome sunshine in otherwise stormy northern Arizona. Revisiting the pile of instruments day after day, watching periodic flurries [...]
Winter storm Remus provided spectacular documentation of the approaching weather system, but didn’t amount to sufficient accumulation to cover the pile in snow. So, the wait for the next storm begins. To dismantle the instruments would mean starting over, so [...]
Day 4: Christmas. Several inches of snow accumulated on the back side of the pile of instruments overnight, but blew off the front side in 60 mph wind gusts. A Mexican Gray Wolf visited the meadow this morning; we watched [...]
Time-lapse video captures the construction of the pile of instruments: Video credit: Mark Neumann
I’m happy to learn that Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra was included in the list of top ten Phoenix art exhibits of 2015. I received the news today while sitting in a truck cab parked on a forest road at the [...]
