“Variation III” is pure emotion given shape — light and shadow colliding, colours dissolving into one another like uncontainable feeling. Here, the canvas becomes an atmosphere: tenderness dissolves into ache, ache into resilience. It is a variation in the truest sense, a shifting state of postpartum experience where nothing holds still, but everything carries meaning. An emotional score without words, only colour and form.

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The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky
With Permission: 2013 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Recorded live in Roy Thompson Hall, December 4 & 6, 2008 www.tso.ca
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