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Below is a soundtrack list for the studio while I paint. Over the past few years I have slowly realized how music and literature can influence painting. I began the series Songs for Harper Lee a few years back after trying to grasp the concept of literature as art and vice versa. Artists, primarily Motherwell, spoke incessantly about the influence of literature on his work. Even down to the way names were chosen for his paintings. I remember watching him blindly scan the page, his fingers seeking and fumbling, looking for a random word that would become the title of his painting. The word chosen was The Homely Protestant. A rather great title but a little melodramatic at the time but none the less impressionistic on a young painter. James Joyce was his muse as Southern authors have become mine.