Limited Edition Print - Jasmin Blasco, Untitled, 2014

In the artist’s own words: “During my residency at Villa Lena I chose to develop a print to give form to my thinking about the process of creation — conceptualizing it as a gesture through time. My education in music technology predisposed me to think of visual representation of music not as a static record commemorating past music but rather as maps of possibilities for future musical expression. 

Navigational maps, such as this print, offer to position prospective viewers (or possible performers) not in a retrospective position vis-a-vis the score but the space of the wondering present — in the dark with only their own hand to guide them.

The choice of high contrast white-on-black aesthetics is meant to evoke blueprints, engineering proposals for future construction. The Hand at the center of the composition figures as a reference to early music notation: the Guidonian Hand, a medieval mnemonic device for singing monks.

To create — in other words to "face the music" — is to place oneself in the present moment and to make a gesture towards the unknown.”

Jasmin Blasco is a French-American artist, musician and film-maker based in Los Angeles.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM PRINT SALES WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING THE VILLA LENA FOUNDATION.