Hesiod says: (ll. 75-103) “These things, then, the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope (3), who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour, and behold him at his birth, they pour sweet dew upon his tongue, and from his lips flow gracious words.”
Tonight the choice to pursue a safe and simple course of art or to face the David; a life of love and devotion, faith, betrayal and even murder; a man flawed to an extreme yet an impact of purity upon mankind… how to translate the vast difference with in the biblical and the man into stone, yet give it life and heart…
Paramount to David was the love, had he followed the path of his heart would the atrocities have come to pass would his ultimate message of love be heard… a new David, a new icon, for a new age will not be without controversy…the beauty and the darkness, the passion and the pathos ,must a have a voice from within the stone.
Can we give the stone a voice can Brian and I give the next decade of our life to a series of works that may sing to few , whisper to some, but be silent to many…. we cannot do this alone we need to find the spirit that gives our hands a voice and our hearts the music, we need to find the essence of David the purity of heart and love that gives life to words and fills silence with sound… do we begin this journey with only the faith of a feeling that it must be created or do we wait for logic to whisper fears into our ears… from passion and love comes inspiration and greatness can such a passion guide us to destiny to create our epic can calliopes words and love guide our hands .
Salivador Dali created and prospered from 1929 until 1982 with his Muse Gala (Elena Diakonova ) by his side after her death in 1982 his brilliant creativity was extinguished. Picasso, Rubens, Bonnard, Renoir, Charles Blackman, all created with the voice of passion given life in the muse… every great artist has been fueled by love in the form of a muse someone whose love give life to art…
Michelangelo gave the world the David in 1504 but who gave the David to Michelangelo who was the muse that gave the stone a heart, can we be so blessed as to find a muse to give warmth and life to the cold stone, can we find a muse that makes our hands sing… is our Calliope here has the muse of epic come into our life… will the sweet dew of passion touch our lips and hands
Could the third time be a charm … could this be a vision of forever carved in stone…
We begin our epic David
