"Tweet" — Gallery Acrylic Print
$375.00Price
TweetEstate-AuthorizedAcrylic in Frameless Face-Mounted Gallery-Style Mounting Tweet 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. As a retinal degenerative disease progressively took her sight, Romain reinvented her practice around what she could hear and remember. Working with braille-labeled paints, hand-cut stencils, and a magnifying monitor, Romain embraced the unpredictable — a blue line where she'd reached for another color, a word half-buried in pigment — and let those “mistakes” live, insisting they made the work breathe. The result is a painting that doesn't depict so much as sound: urgent, layered, gloriously unruly. A portrait of perseverance from an artist who refused to stop making — and a reminder that color, like music, is felt before it is understood. 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."
