229/365 Music is the fairy dust of commoners

One minute you can be gray and lost, covered up in a thin film of your own questions and worries and self-focused mess. And then you turn on some music and all the world springs to life, all worry vanishes in the presence of whimsy. When I’m making art and find myself in a dark, colorless corner of non-ideas, the music that inspires me most is music that’s orange-yellow. (Yes, I see color in things that shouldn’t have color.) Music like the Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack. Stunning. Calming. Nearly every song on this album is yellow-orange, with the occasional deep green-blue undertone. Track 16, Mrs. Darcy, is especially yellow.

Another particular color or sound I am drawn to is anything with rich, jeweled undertones. Music that has some weight to it like Come Away With Me by Nora Jones. I know it’s old school, but the whole album is calming and dreamy. So inspiring…