Fill the Broken Piano with Water
A piano single that began with a drawing of a broken piano filled with black water
Summary
Where the Music Sleeps
Black water fills a broken grand piano, with a black cat sitting above it. The damage is visible; the interior beneath the water remains unseen.
The piano evokes people changed and damaged in different ways by time and experience. Beneath the dark water there may be hidden feelings and memories, things lost or forgotten; the work leaves their contents open.
The cat does not exist to explain or change the piano’s condition. The cat, the piano and the black water remain together in one scene, each in its own right.
The title asks for a broken piano to be filled with water, while the image shows the state that follows without explaining its cause or process. Being broken does not mean ceasing to exist, and being unseen does not mean nothing is there.
A digital pen drawing made with dense lines, accompanied by piano music that began with the scene.