Since earning a Masters Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2004, Paula Arciniega has been carving out two artistic paths: one as a vocalist and the other as a painter. For Paula, these aren't separate paths; they are deeply intertwined. The musical works of some of the great classical composers have been potent muses for Paula's paintings. And in the reverse direction, the bold, emotive execution that characterizes so much of Paula's abstract art has a way of informing the emotional range in her musical performances. This mixing of art forms makes for fertile ground: it is in the interplay between song and colour, grand themes and small appreciations, that Paula finds so much inspiration.  

If you've met Paula, you know she was meant to do this. To create. To sing. She's the kind of person who seems excited at the very idea of Possibility: literally all that awaits emergence – a cosmological constant of sorts, there like a loyal lover – if only human consciousness would unfurl these unseen heavens.

Perhaps this is the great beauty of it: that the heavens cannot be known all the time; and so art and music are a series of glimpses that leave you feeling more alive, more truthful, and hopeful about what comes next.