photo: NICOLE AND STEPHEN NGUYEN
DEAN HADDOCK / THE DECATUER FIST:
The Decatur Fist / Zarou / Force Multiplier collaboration was an opportunity to refine an idea that I had been experimenting with before meeting Zarou. "From Here to Nowhere" starts with the line, "Molly said there was life on the bus for the both of us," which was inspired by Tom Wolfe and Jack Kerouac. The mostly linear, somewhat concrete drawing took me back to the lines I watched folding out from under the car on road trips in my youth and then to the lines connecting and dividing us all. The drawing isn't literal, but neither is the song. I was grateful for the invitation to participate in the project because, were it not for Zarou, I'm not sure the song would have ever left my notebook.
JON ELLIOTT:
Zarou’s drawing looks like vertically oriented MIDI information, and my piece was designed to loosely mimic the pattern of your drawing. MIDI raindrops.
The Decatur Fist / Zarou / Force Multiplier collaboration was an opportunity to refine an idea that I had been experimenting with before meeting Zarou. "From Here to Nowhere" starts with the line, "Molly said there was life on the bus for the both of us," which was inspired by Tom Wolfe and Jack Kerouac. The mostly linear, somewhat concrete drawing took me back to the lines I watched folding out from under the car on road trips in my youth and then to the lines connecting and dividing us all. The drawing isn't literal, but neither is the song. I was grateful for the invitation to participate in the project because, were it not for Zarou, I'm not sure the song would have ever left my notebook.
JON ELLIOTT:
Zarou’s drawing looks like vertically oriented MIDI information, and my piece was designed to loosely mimic the pattern of your drawing. MIDI raindrops.
All images copyright Andrew Zarou.