Life is an Art Project

by Bo Bestvina

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1.	A Home in Hawaii 03:38		buy track
2.	Goodnight Song 01:09		buy track
3.	New York Subway 03:29		buy track
4.	Wind Between My Thoughts 03:10		buy track
5.	Life is an Art Project 03:08		buy track
6.	Where is the Heartbeat (Bob Bestvina ca. 1989)) 02:46		buy track
7.	Soften 02:37		buy track
8.	Harriet 01:37	lyrics	buy track
I Live in an Art Project Created by a woman I’ve never met Morning light yells “get up! This art project isn’t done yet.” As the earth turns and this home in a city sheltered ravine awakes Shadows on my walls reveal contrast The source of art and appreciation I live in an art project By a woman I’ll never meet An artist, gardener, a thinker A tinkerer in the membrane between vivid perception And foggy creativity She dug into life and wrung beauty out of pain To look like Wisteria tendrils twirling upward With ends reaching high And into another artist’s life Sitting on her overgrown patio Loosens up my sticky feelings My regret fixtures And uncertainties about my role in lives others today I live in an art project By a women I just met Through her forest of magnolias, dogwoods, and cedar What did I do to deserve such a good mentor? I met her in cream-colored petals, soft leaves, and endless shades of green I met her in the twilight hour in the radiance of her old lamps When the white, cracked walls get quiet and absorb my thoughts And I can see I am a continuation of an awesome art project
9.	I'll Be Gone 02:21	info	buy track
10.	Oregon Wind 03:13		buy track

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A good friend and collaborator once told me: “true art is about not knowing how everything is going to turn out.” Its not surprising someone steeped in experimental music would say that, but every piece of art (music, poetry, fine art) I’ve created has been different than I thought it would turn out. Sometimes I like that difference, sometimes that difference just comes from being lazy and skipping over the hard parts. Life is very much that way too. I’d think with age and experience my plans would start to align closer with reality, as I now know to avoid careless or impulsive choices, but such knowledge just puts me on a more sophisticated level of getting things wrong.

Life has been full of pleasant surprises for me this past year, and this album is my way of responding to these surprises.

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released August 3, 2018

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Bo Bestvina Bellingham, Washington

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