THINKING ABOUT… the sound of colors… a lecture about the music of art and poetry by Roxana Velasquez, Executive Director of the San Diego Museum of Art.  A show opens next Monday at the San Diego Museum of Art that will attempt to show there is always music in art.

I kept thinking about how photography, writing with light, for many years had to make do without color.  The poetry of photography, The Tao of Photography, comes from both space and color.  An absence of color in a photograph, as in the tree I shot in Balboa Park near the Laurel Street entrance to the Plaza de Panama, except for the green plant growing front of it and the tuft of green at the very top if I had chosen to include the green in the images, is colorless… but there is music in the color of the Plaza de Panama. It’s not the fountain or the buildings seen separately or the statue of El Cid or even the colorful sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle that create the color of that space.  No band was playing and the organ pavilion was closed; the tower that chimes on the quarter hour at the Museum of Man and plays recorded organ music was silent except for the reminder of time every fifteen minutes.  The music is in the art of the place.  I am eager to see (and hear) the exhibition which begins on Monday, September, 21.  THE SOUND OF COLORS: A JOURNEY THROUGH PAINTED POETRY...