For this Random Thursday I'm just connecting things in my head. They may or not be true or relevant to anyone but me.

As a painter I prefer abstract art over any other kind of art. For me, art is an easier way than words to get thoughts out of my head. It's also just fun. When I start a painting I don't have an extreme plan to exactly what it's going to be or look like because usually I never know what it might become until I'm mostly done with the painting. Even after, I might not have a clue what it, the painting, is. I just paint to paint usually.

As a musician however, I don't know what I am. The only thought in my head is to compose, to put some kind of picture in the listeners head maybe by the title of the piece or just by the first couple notes of music. I may not know exactly what notes to write down and play but I try to piece them together without not paying attention.

It's easier to paint without looking than it is to compose without looking unless I'm improving the instrument. Like the piano or guitar it is easy to improv. Probably because it is easy to use chords where as the clarinet if I tried improving it is more like a solo with nothing underneath it or with it. Also, it isn't that I'm making things without looking as if I'm not caring it is more like I'm letting my insides control what I'm playing. If that made any sense. :) It did in my head.

Since I am just rambling here this may or may not have proved how insane I am. :)

-The Clartist