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J.K. Whitmore

Before Language there was Sound

Before Language there was Sound

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Oil Paint On Wood Panel

 

He spoke in songs and tongues long before he learned the names of things. A small body sat at a large piano. A grand piano to match his grand vision of the world. He hammered at the keys, “I am here! This is me!”. As Émile Zola famously said: “I am here to live out loud!”

 

The room was not amazed at his technical skill, for he did not possess any, after all. But, rather, they were at once entranced because he was truly free.

 

2025

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