Hogwood Fellowship 

Notes from the chaos (2019)
After Haydn’s The Representation of Chaos

​Forming a discontiguous series, each of these (currently six) panels is envisaged as an individual note, each an integral, yet disconnected part of the whole.
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Musical gestures emerge suddenly, suspend and then dissolve into darkness without cadence or embellishment. Nascent, containing everything and yet without content. This is the paradoxical nothing and everything of Genesis - of all creation stories. A visual and musical paradox, the six (hoping eventually seven) panels are intended above all as a tribute to Haydn’s The Representation of Chaos, the incredible opening to his great oratorio The Creation – a work I have had the huge privilege to draw from in live rehearsal twice. On both occasions, I fell in love with the luminous darkness of Haydn’s overture which seems to reach beyond the scope of our understanding both back in time and forward to a future we are free to shape.

Notes from the Chaos, (panel II) oil on canvas, 140 x 150cm, 2019