Looking Back to Find a New Path

As I write this I'm honestly a little exhausted, but in the best way. This month has been spent really exploring the possibilities of what the short I’m creating can be. And it all changed in the last 24 hours. And so has this email.

I love an orderly and logical plan and, up until yesterday, had written this months’s “Letter From the Artist” all about the steps I’ve taken towards getting my short, “This Moment”, made. But, after working on my artist origin story, as a part of Matthew Carey's "Audience By Design" workshop, I found myself drawn in a different direction. I thought about the works of art that I credit with reminding my heart what I was meant to do. Seeing "Einstein on the Beach" and being riveted by the stillness, repetition, and use of light. Reading Gertrude Stein for the first time and marveling at the musicality of the language, so much so that I had to read pieces out loud. And seeing the Trisha Brown Dance Company for the first time and releasing oceans of tears. These influences brought me here and I can now recognize that in "This Moment". They have brought me to this moment.

I encourage you all to think about the moments of inspiration that brought you here. The people who have influenced you. Are they still present in what you do? What kind of support or lift could just bringing the thought of them into your present have? I know that it has completely reinvigorated me.

I almost forgot. I finished a demo track of "This Moment". Listening to it, I can hear the layers of inspiration for the art that brought me here and I'm so incredibly proud. Below you'll get to experience it. Just click the link which will take to you to the private Soundcloud track, just for you. Keep exploring and filling your joy tanks!

This Moment (demo)

Love and music,
Byron

P.S. For more info about the Audience By Design workshop find Matthew on instagram @MatthewCarey