Artist's Statement

Some of these specific items gave me a giggle as they seemed appropriate or inappropriate in various ways:

Fraternal lodge-wear and a garment brush makes sense. A bank which provides a sewing kit implies to me preparation for possible tight times, a casket company’s calendar feels ominous, an insurance company’s barometer to predict storms seems both helpful and threatening, and a bank trust department’s letter opener that looks like a dagger feels less than trusting.

The piece starts with a ceremonial march and garment brushing, followed by my “bank music” which climbs and crashes. I could not figure out how to represent hand sewing, so there is a bit of old-fashioned treadle machine music followed by a low solemn funereal march. This is interrupted by a lightning storm and soothing “we’ve got insurance” music. The bank music returns, this time ending in the dagger of the trust department, followed by the soothing insurance music. Hear a clock ticking in the background? That is, in this context, a reference to the casket company’s calendar.

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