Katrina O’Brien’s, Carried Like a Whisper, is part of her solo exhibition, Dream Letter. 

Katrina says of this work: “My desire to move away from blues into reds began in this work and Beating Heart. This work is the pulse of the body of work, entwined with Beating Heart. While both works function a little differently, they are from the same place.

“My fascination with the way the brain and body work together has increased over the past few years. The way we respond to different stimuli, good or bad, and how it can have a dramatic impact on the body. When the mind is impacted, the body responds, and when the body is impacted, the brain responds.

“It’s a little bit visceral, a little bit sensual, and very much alive. The role that heart and soul play in amongst the mind/body relationship is intricately and exquisitely fascinating to me.

Katrina says of this series: “The title, Dream Letter, was inspired by the album and song by Tim Buckley with the same name. The song itself is not the inspiration, but the notion of writing a song, a painting or a letter to someone who may never receive it was the fixation of these works. For Tim, it was writing to his son Jeff Buckley, who he tragically never really made an effort to be a father to. Both their lives have always fascinated me—Tim, a bad father with an amazing vocal range, Jeff his son with equally amazing vocal skills—both not wanting anything to do with the other and yet their lives mirrored each other’s in a deeply compelling way. Both had so much talent and yet crumbled under the weight of it all. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to meet either of them. I wonder about the music they might have made if their fate had been to live on. Some of these imagined conversations play a part in my new works.”

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