We are Magnets
Untitled by Florian Maier-Aichen
There is a movie I can only vaguely remember seeing when I was a little kid, but images from it have stayed with me to this day (sometimes I wonder if it were instead a dream - which is more likely as I’ve yet to track down the movie)
What I remember of it is pretty hazy…..but the color red sunk into everything. A bright red stain covering the entire earth. It was beautiful.
Nothing I’ve seen or found has reminded me more of this dream/movie than these photographs by the German artist Florian Maier-Aichen. I found them online this morning and felt this strange bit of recognition - like passing a stranger on the street, only to have their face gnaw at you for the rest of the day. I know you.
The oddest things can feel so familiar sometimes. This dream/movie - whatever it was - somehow, definitely became apart of me. When I close my eyes and picture walking around its landscape I hear amazing sounds like this:
Alexander Turnquist - We Are Magnets mp3
This song is by local Hudson musician Alexander Turnquist. Alexander recently sent me a link to “The Silent Ballet Volume II” which includes his track ‘We Are Magnets‘ (they also use his photography for the albums’ artwork)
It is a great album (and free download!). As I type this it is playing in the gallery (one of my other favorite tracks off the album is #5 - ‘Watching it Unfold‘ by Australian musician Lawrence English. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.)
Anyway, it is beautiful out in Hudson today. I hope it is where you are too….
p.s. Alexander will be playing May 1st at 8pm at the Spotty Dog Bookstore here in Hudson
