Of the refrain

Of the refrain

"A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under his breath. He walks and halts to his song. Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with his little song as best he can. The song is like a rough sketch of a calming and stabilizing, calm and stable, center in the heart of chaos. Perhaps the child skips as he sings....But the song itself is already a skip: it jumps from chaos to the beginnings of order in chaos and is in danger of breaking apart at any moment. There is always sonority in Ariadne's thread. Or the song of Orpheus"

'Of the Refrain' Gilles Deleuze pg 310

This is a painting I did last week. The paintings is called 'of the refrain' , it is interested in taking Deleuze's notion of 'of the refrain' and creating a picture out of this.

Nick