In the beginning
Wednesday, 31st January 2007Posted under: life ,
Its been a while since it all started, but only now is there anything to show for the effort.
The first time I was inspired to bring the imagery inside my head into a more tangible form was during a wild intoxicated party in my dorm room at Burton and Garran Hall at the Australian National University. I had, true to my Dutch heritage, maximised my use of space by building a raised four poster queen sized bed, ontop of which sat a shelf which housed the speakers to my rather fancy stereo, which, along with my text books and tv was delegated to the shelving underneath.
The useful thing about this was that I could get utterly smashed, turn the music up, crawl onto my bed (this sometimes took several attempts) and let the sordid drug induced party antics happening below me slip into useful oblivion as the Brahms violin concerto washed over me. It was here, with Brahms, that the full grandeur and beauty of this work provoked an epiphany.
ben
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