"Mother Earth" — Museum Framed Print
Mother Earth
Estate-Authorized
Framed Archival Fine Art Print
Mother Earth belongs to the body of work Barbara Romain called her "visual music"—paintings built not from what she could see, but from what she could hear and remember. As a retinal degenerative disease progressively took her sight, Romain reinvented her practice around sound and what she remembered layer by layer.
In Barbara's own words: "I call these paintings my visual music. I would put up a big canvas and listen to a song over and over again, and follow with a color—a layer with the drum, a layer with the guitar, and on top, usually, the lyrics. Music and color have a lot in common. Tone, harmony, scale… but they're also very emotional. It's not just about thinking. It's more about feeling."
