Back in my teens, I had some memorable dreams about living under a baby grand piano. I played the piano from aged eight into my early twenties, and I admit to seriously coveting baby grands. Especially Broadwoods - which used to be made locally.
A little while back on Facebook, author and artist Imelda Almqvist asked something about dreams in relation to instruments (it was a while ago, I don't remember the prompt). I shared my dream, and she's gone on to make this amazing piece of art inspired by it.
I've been a fan of Imelda's work for years, and I own one of her originals.
Pianos are very much an ancestral thing for me - I learned to play on my grandmother's piano, in the house that had first belonged to my great grandparents. My son taught himself to play one autumn, on that same piano, in a house that (with he and I living with it) had been a home to seven out of the last eight generations of my family. There is of course also an ancestry of tradition, because of the piano music that I greatly loved when I was learning to play, and all of the people who played that work before me.
Find out more about Imelda's work over here - https://www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk/
No comments:
Post a Comment