"Paris - city of eternal light", a visualmyth from the public domain
films of S-E Lofhelm, filmed in Paris in 1939. Chanson d'amour by
Aleksander Wertynski. Two paintings of Notre Dame Catherdral by Henri
Matisse, from 1902 and 1914. Powered by ONADIME. Visualmyth created by
Patrick Burke.
Nona Marie Heid - a life lived to the fullest. Requiesce in pace et caritate. Antonin Dvořák, "Songs My Mother Taught Me".
Pablo Casals - Cello. 19 June 1929 - Barcelona. Visualmyth by Patrick Burke.
The Rolling Stones, "Parachute Woman" Jagger/Richards. Footage from "Pas de deux" 1968. Norman McLaren, director. Produced by the National
Film Board of Canada. Dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren.
Ludmilla Chiriaeff, coreography. Wally Howard, special effects. Jacques
Fogal, photography. This is a slowed down snippet from the original full
length film. Visualmyth by Patrick Burke.
I became an artist in 1977 after spending three years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska where I fished for King Crab, shrimp, halibut and salmon on the North Pacific and on the Bering Sea. It was an amazing experience; inspired by sleep deprivation and the urge to survive I began to draw and paint. Prior to fishing I considered myself a writer, soaking up experiences, writing prose, poetry and short stories. I also spent 3 years as a herdsman on dairy farms in Vermont and in Washington state, my thinking at the time was that if I learned to fish and farm I would be a true Irishman, and I would always be able to get a job.
So I experienced the "ancient/primal" occupations. I have exhibited my work in galleries in the US and Europe. In 1991 I had the good fortune of being the first American artist to have an exhibit in East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Kulturhaus Treptow. My current goal is to write as much as I paint, combine unseen elements - create a big circle for the wind to blow through, causing sound. "There's plenty where plenty comes from."
email:visualmyth@gmail.com
