I wrote this for a slide show of my friend and colleague Ellen Winkler's beautiful prints. She has an exhibit coming up in May. You can read more about her here. The suite is in four sections: an Asian-inflected mind-clearing introduction; a reworked version of an old tune of mine called "Rainy Day Waltz," which is a shameless homage to the second movement of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G; a little minimalistic piano-to-electronica divertimento; and a final, spare hymn. Overall, I was trying to reflect a visual artist's concentration, and particularly the way a printmaker enters various weird little universes through a few delicately but concertedly and painstakingly etched lines.
