Listen to the Wind
Inspired by the Symphony No.3 by Alexander Borodin and No.5 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pastel on Pastelmat
24 x 30 cm
My latest work for friends' orchestra’s upcoming concert is now complete. The themes are Alexander Borodin’s Symphony No. 3 and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.
Listening to Borodin’s 3rd, I immediately felt an endless wind sweeping across the Steppes. This resonance awakened memories of the vast landscapes and skies painted by my favorite artist, Arkhip Kuindzhi.
Although I have never visited Russia, the sky I looked up at in Utsjoki, a town in the Arctic Circle, last summer overlapped with the music and became the motif for this piece. I feel that the dramatic surge of these clouds resonates with the "swelling of fate" in Tchaikovsky’s 5th.
This painting is a moment captured in time—where music blows through like the wind and the clouds.