Todd Board

Words Painting Music Todd Board

We all have our own mythology, that is, our coherent system of meaning and value. Too often our myth remains safe, habitual, reductionist, and unexamined. In my "sample-of-one" experience, the most expansive and honest inner life emerges when we tire-kick our myths, and wade into a creative blank space not to find pat answers, but to interrogate our myth and "see what recurs, and links, and echoes when you step away." As much as possible, this is a five-sense experience, which invites language, images, sounds, and other senses to engage and reflect each other. Occasionally, this process will politely nudge the inner life aside and generate some fairly memorable outer-life perceptions and experiences. "Words Painting Music" attempts to capture some of this flavor.