AM STRAM GRAM
“This is not so much a starting point as a point in the middle. Lyse Lemieux describes the song that has been running through her head, like an invisible companion, as she has been painting: Am Stram Gram. It is a non-sensical collection of rhyming phonemes, a childhood comptine [1]. One often hears about the music that influences painters, but it is understood as the artist’s choice to have background music playing in the studio to accompany their work. Lemieux’s reference is different. This is music that is remembered and repeated and embodied like an internal metronome, involuntarily. In turn, our reading of the work is inflected by the rhythm of this comptine: each dab of paint is a syllable, a line of dots is a phrase.[1] Comptine (French) a short, simple poem for children; a nursery rhyme”. -Excerpt, Curatorial essay, Kathleen Ritter.
WIL ABALLE ART PROJECTS
September 16 to October 14, 2023
Photo credit: Mike Love
