michael golub be the music

The idea of being is basically a crossing over from the idea of separation where we have an artist that stands outside and creates a separate work which we call “art”, which could be a painting, sculpture,etc… , to actually in some way entering into and becoming one with the created and the creative process.

The creator, the action of creation and created object actually becomes one whole ritual. We can actually think of the created object then as more of a recording of this ritual. This then is more the way music works.

My work has always been heavily connected with music and influenced by music. I listen to music while I create and I am driven by the music and it really becomes an essential part of what I am doing. I think that My art more like music than painting. Painting is just a term for the physical medium that I employ. I think of the like songs, compositions of energy, rhythm tomes, vibrations, and silence. Like music my paintings have certain solidarity to them. They rely on nothing else to exist. Painting historically has its roots in pure representation whereas music flows from pure sound.